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The AI turned one planned change into 4 merge-ready pull requests in 15 minutes

Handed the AI a planned multi-module change and came back to 4 PRs ready to merge in 15 minutes; the work would have taken most of a day.

How it works

  1. He hands the AI a planned multi-module change
  2. Comes back to 4 pull requests ready to merge in 15 minutes
  3. Work that would have taken most of a day

Why it’s worth knowing

Splitting the change into 4 clean PRs is the part humans rush.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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