Re:GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview
by ncruces on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:43AM
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> I can recognize within seconds if a PR is an easy merge or a 5 minute phone call.
I'm glad you can.
Even before agents, I'm pulled to work on at least a couple different projects a year, the successful ones with teams of 10s of people working on them. If I stay longer than a couple of months, I eventually become the expert on some of the things I did, so I get pulled years later to review something I haven't touched in ages, which has changed requirements and grown a bunch of dependents.
That was the reality of working on a team with hundreds of people and dozens of related products.
Now agents are “helping” people increase complexity and velocity 10-fold.
You can call it a problem in the coal mine, but there's no going back. GitHub simply has no choice but to handle this new scale.
I'm glad you can.
Even before agents, I'm pulled to work on at least a couple different projects a year, the successful ones with teams of 10s of people working on them. If I stay longer than a couple of months, I eventually become the expert on some of the things I did, so I get pulled years later to review something I haven't touched in ages, which has changed requirements and grown a bunch of dependents.
That was the reality of working on a team with hundreds of people and dozens of related products.
Now agents are “helping” people increase complexity and velocity 10-fold.
You can call it a problem in the coal mine, but there's no going back. GitHub simply has no choice but to handle this new scale.