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by 000ooo000 940 days ago
*Large pull requests slow down code review up to a point where large enough pull requests promote less thorough and quicker review

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Also it’s (indirectly) an ad for a product that they’re selling to help devs achieve this.
I can attest that super large PRs get through faster due to review fatigue.

I suspect they still slow down development in the long run though due to more bugs and less theory building among the team