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His AI review gate merges about 30% of his company’s code changes with no waiting

A man built a service that sits on his company’s GitHub repos. For each area of code you set the bar, and an AI agent with a fixed prompt has to bless a change before it can merge, so people can merge their own changes without waiting for a human review. About 30% of the company’s pull requests now merge this way.

How it works

  1. He installs the service on the company repos and sets the review bar per area
  2. An AI agent with a fixed prompt checks each change against the bar
  3. Changes that pass can be merged by their author with no human wait
  4. About 30% of pull requests now go through this way

Why it’s worth knowing

A third of a company’s code changes now merge on an agent’s say so, inside rules the team set per area.

Where it’s from

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

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