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Speeding up code review with `small-change`

Hacker News | Oct 19, 2026 | alexmolas

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Yay. we have two teams that are merging 10x their PRs over that period. and a number of others are closing in on that number. incidents are down 42% half-over-half, and critical incidents are down 78% half-over-half. construct, but that’s undeniable today. As we’ve walked this path, we–like everyone else progressing down it–have run into the problem of pull request review. The p50 pull request review took about 33 minutes to complete 2 years ago, but now takes us about 77 minutes. The slope here correlates tightly with the number of pull requests getting merged.

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