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by nine_zeros 646 days ago
> The PR description should contain the context that made a change necessary, which is something that can not be contained in the change itself and thus can't reliably be inferred from it.

> And if I request a PR review, I trust you, as my peer, to understand the problem my change is trying to solve and to judge whether it succeeds in doing so. If I wanted AI suggestions for it I can skip the middleman.

Are you talking about keeping meaningful processes around? Because companies are trying to get rid of humans and people altogether. They don't really know why PR reviews exist - only that reviews can take time - and they don't want to spend time. But can't remove reviews anyway - so just paper over it.