“now you have your backlog in your pull requests. And that’s the bottleneck now because you can’t review all of that. And then there are going to be agents that review all that code and auto merge and auto deploy it, and what you get is the Homer Simpson car.”
Video moment · 16:22 · youtube.com
From “Building world-class engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit”, found 2026-10-14.
In the same session, Atlassian’s CTO reports PRs per engineer up 89%. Speakers are inferred from what they say; quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.