[cesnja]

Based on DORA research it's correlated with the engineering team/company being a high-performer.

[qznc]

The "Accelerate" book claims it is not just correlation but even causation: Higher deployment frequency causes better company performance.

[franktankbank]

Given that its trivially easy to produce unbounded amounts of useless PRs this cannot be a causation.

[xeromal]

That's kind of what I was feeling. There is nothing that really keeps someone from just making BS tiny PRs