Yacine: if your merge takes weeks, you're not working on anything important

yacineMTB · x · 2026-11-08

YacineMTB quote-tweeted a complaint about long merge cycles with a blunt take: "If this is you, you work on nothing important." The quoted author pushed back that their median time-to-merge is hours, not weeks, and has been throughout — plus there are places where agentic review sufficed and still does, making the original post's details puzzling. The exchange captures the split in engineering culture over AI-era velocity and agent-based code review.

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