Agents can produce changes faster than a team can review them, and someone still has to own what ships. These articles cover keeping up with review, breaking a huge change into reviewable pull requests, which review questions stay with a person, what a pull request should tell its reviewer, and whether an agent should merge its own work.
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Where the line between an agent's assistance and the authority to ship belongs, which changes need an independent human approval, and how branch rules, credentials and deployment gates enforce it when instructions fail.
Write the pull request for a reader who was not in the chat: problem, boundaries, decisions, assumptions, evidence tied to the diff, open concerns and ownership, then have an uninvolved reviewer rerun the critical check.
Sort each review question by what it needs to know: let checks and AI reviewers cover what the diff shows, and keep intent, product consequences, architecture fit, risk acceptance and the merge with a named approver.
Sort a huge AI-generated diff by purpose, rebuild it as a stack of pull requests where every commit builds and passes its tests, check the top differs from the original only where intended, and give each reviewer one layer plus…
Find out whether pull requests are waiting or slow to read, make authors finish the evidence before review, cap open changes and size them small, and judge the result by speed and stability together.
