“what we see on our platform at least 13% of PRs had a recorded CI failure. … Which means in all these cases there is a separate round trip to go either back to the developer machine or for an agent to understand the logs root cause of failure fix it push another commit”

Korlam’s code review platform Gitar (now part of SonarSource) sees PR volume growing about 25% month over month. His mitigations: make CI fast enough to absorb repair round trips (their incremental CI went from about 10 minutes to under one), and shift expensive checks left. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.