“We needed to slow down some of the migration work to avoid overwhelming the teams that had to do the reviews”

— Stoyan Nikolov et al., Google · VIII-D. Landing the changes: a human process

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From “How is Google using AI for internal code migrations?”, found 2026-10-14.

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In the JUnit3 to JUnit4 migration (5,359 files in three months), Google deliberately capped how many changes it generated each week, because reviewers, not generation, set the pace.