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1 / 3One engineer merges 200 pull requests a month, and an AI reviews nearly all of them×

The claim

Neil Kakkar writes in The Pragmatic Engineer that he went from eight to 20 merged changes a month to more than 200 at Tano, a startup of about 10. Human review is optional.

The costs

He also lists the costs: more exhaustion, fewer people who understand the code, and a migration bug that paid creators twice.

The evidence

The evidence is one engineer at one company.

Sources and the full story

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One engineer merges 200 pull requests a month, and an AI reviews nearly all of them

Neil Kakkar writes in The Pragmatic Engineer that he went from eight to 20 merged changes a month to more than 200 at Tano, a startup of about 10. Human review is optional. He also lists the costs: more exhaustion, fewer people who understand the code, and a migration bug that paid creators twice. The evidence is one engineer at one company. SourcesB

Sources

• BHow software engineering is changing (The Pragmatic Engineer)newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

This story ran in the Morning Brief of November 4th 2026.