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by rbren 519 days ago
The bigger win comes not from saving keystrokes, but from saving you from a context switch.

Merge conflicts are probably the biggest one for me. I put up a PR and move onto a new task. Someone approves, but now there are conflicts. I could switch off my task, spend 5-10 min remembering the intent of this PR and fixing the issues. Or I could just say "@openhands fix the merge conflicts" and move back to my new task.
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svieira 519 days ago
The issue is that you still need to review the fixed PR (or someone else does) which means you just deferred the context switch, you didn't eliminate it. And if the fix is in a new commit, that's possible (whereas if it rebases you have to remember your old SHA).

Playing the other side, pipelining is real.

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