Your Small PR Rule Won't Survive AI

Tue, 19 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000

For two years, we enforced a strict small-PR culture at Rootly . Stacked PRs, atomic changes, never more than a couple hundred lines. The logic was sound: smaller diffs are easier to review, easier to revert, easier to reason about.

Then AI started writing most of our code.

Feature-Flags on Quentin Rousseau

Your Small PR Rule Won't Survive AI