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Rootly Drops Small PR Rule as Agentic AI Changes Code Review Economics
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Incident management platform provider Rootly has published an account of its decision to drop its long-standing small pull request rule, arguing that the practice no longer serves its purpose now that AI agents generate most of its code. The company describes a shift from measuring PR size to assessing blast radius, with feature flags and rollback capability taking precedence over line counts. By Matt Saunders