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Notes on code review culture

Practical writing on pull request metrics, review workflows, and the small habits that make engineering teams move faster together.

Review workflow · May 19, 2026 · 7 min read

How to improve PR reviews and reduce the number of stale PRs

Stale PRs are not a discipline problem — they're a visibility problem. Here's how to fix the review culture on your team with Slack, SLAs, smaller diffs, and a little public recognition.
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AI & code review · May 11, 2026 · 7 min read

Reviewing AI-generated code is the new bottleneck

AI writes most of the code in modern engineering teams. Humans still own the review, and that step has quietly become the bottleneck almost no team is measuring.
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Engineering metrics · May 2, 2026 · 8 min read

How to track pull request metrics on GitHub (and why it's harder than it should be)

GitHub shows you individual PRs, not the patterns across them. Here's what's missing, how to build it yourself with the API, and why most teams stop trying.
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