“If your engineer is able to manage five simple tasks, two manageable tasks, and one complex task at a time, your two engineer code review system now requires them to review ten simple tasks (theirs and others), four manageable tasks, and two complex tasks.”

— Andrew Pignanelli, General Intelligence Company

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From “Agent-Native Engineering”, found 2026-10-14.

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Their engineers averaged 20 PRs a day, and their answer was to drop the second reviewer. Paxos went the other way and keeps two human reviewers on agent PRs.