We modified Claude.md so that it tries to use it when it makes sense and now even AI generated changes result in stack of small PRs
tartieret on Hacker News
review time is exponential with the size of PRs
In the thread “Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant”
Helped: GitHub Stacked PRs and a size-checking GitHub Action.
Got in the way: Large AI-generated PRs initially led to missed defects.
… without it even if you are disciplined and break down your work on several PRs, you end up having to deal with rebasing them one by one when the base moves. We modified Claude.md so that it tries to use it when it makes sense and now even AI generated changes result in stack of small PRs I think it's worth investing in this as there are studies showing that review time is exponential with the size of PRs (or worse you are more likely to let defect go through on a large PRs). …