PR Cycle Time in the AI Era: Why the Bottleneck Moved

Larridin
Apr 14, 2026 1:00:19 PM

TL;DR AI shifted the PR bottleneck from writing code to reviewing it. When code generation takes minutes instead of hours, the constraint on delivery speed moves downstream to the review queue. ...

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