Pull requests aren't what they used to be. A PR used to be a story. Someone planned a thing, broke it into pieces, made a few commits as they figured out the shape of the work, opened a PR, got feedback, iterated. You could read it. You could reason about it. The diff had a narrative. Now a lot of PRs land as one commit, a couple hundred lines touching a handful of files, generated in an afternoon. No plan, no decomposition, just "here's the thing, please review." If you're lucky, the description was written by a human. If you're unlucky, that was generated too. Generation got a hundred times cheaper, review didn't. The Metric Trap Some of what I'm about to say isn't new. Addy Osmani wrote a great piece earlier this year covering a lot of the same territory, with a focus on the practical side: the PR contract, how solo and team workflows diverge, concrete principles for keeping AI review tools useful instead of noisy. If you want the field manual, read his post. I'm trying to do something different here.…