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by vesselapi 88 days ago
This matches what I've seen. The bottleneck moved from writing to reviewing, but we didn't update the process to reflect that. What helped our team was shifting to smaller, more frequent commits with tight scope descriptions — reviewing five 30-line diffs is dramatically less taxing than one 150-line diff, even though the total volume is the same. The cognitive load is nonlinear.