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Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
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Think about the last big feature you shipped.
Key facts
- They are incredibly productive and are projected to drive a 50% productivity gain across every SDLC stage by 2028, according to Gartner
- …all of this and more in one ginormous 1,000+ line diff
- Now the independent concerns are clear: data, API, wiring, UX, making it possible to allocate different reviewer audiences for each
- You are no longer looking at a single 1,720+ line-sized pull request to be reviewed in one sitting, as they saw in their example, but instead, the review can be distributed in small, self-contained
Summary
Both options have trade-offs. Now add coding agents. In this post, follow along with an example of how you can use stacked pull requests to simplify reviews. Let’s say you issue a prompt to add product search to a shopping assistant, walk away and minutes later, literally, you come back to review, steer, and approve.