Engineers merging 4x more PRs at Imprint: Will Larson on speeding up code review
AxSaucedo · x · 2026-10-23
Will Larson details how Imprint handles AI-era code review: average engineers now merge 4x more PRs than two years ago (some teams 10x, one engineer 25x the old average), while incidents dropped 42% and critical incidents 78% half-over-half. The p50 PR review time grew from 33 to 77 minutes, tightly correlated with merge volume. Their partial fix is an approach called 'small-change'; he admits it's not solved but shares the current thinking, including how review-as-knowledge-sharing may need to move elsewhere.
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