Developers Ditch GitHub PRs and Web UI for Direct Pushes and AI Agents

In a developer discussion, davidcrawshaw shared that his team skips pull requests entirely—everyone pushes directly to main—while AI agents now minimize diffs and reduce the code needing human review.

2026-10-18 ~ 2026-10-18 · 3 related posts

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• Dev team drops PRs entirely: push to main, review after the fact with Shelley — davidcrawshaw · 2026-10-18
• "I want an agent to minimize my diffs" — even GitHub's web UI is obsolete now — davidcrawshaw · 2026-10-18