“Our team averages 10.8 PRs per engineer per week, 2.5x the 90th percentile according to DX benchmarks. But every one of those PRs still needed a human to look at it, and the review queue became the constraint.”
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From “How auto-approving low-risk PRs with AI cut our lead time by 74%”, found 2026-10-14.
Six objective criteria define low risk, and engineers cannot self-classify. An agent may approve, but a person always merges. Median time to first approval fell from 2h49m to under 5 minutes.