Should Your Squad Expand AI Capacity When Reviewers Go Quiet? Use This Question-Rate Gate

Description and use

<p>Eleven of twenty-four AI-assisted pull requests merged last week with zero review comments. Median time-to-approve: nine minutes. Tests green. That number should reverse a buy. It should also reverse a self-host.</p> <p>Why would you add capacity to a lane that already stopped being engineering?</p> <p>Picture Tuesday standup. Maya, an EM on a payments squad, is proud. Cycle time dropped. Then a rollback lands at 4 p.m. because an AI-authored retry loop double-charged a webhook. Nobody in review asked how idempotency worked. The tool was not the failure. The silent approve was.</p> <p>Names

Problem

<p>Eleven of twenty-four AI-assisted pull requests merged last week with zero review comments. Median time-to-approve: nine minutes. Tests green. That number should reverse a buy. It should also reverse a self-host.</p> <p>Why would you add capacity to a lane that already stopped being engineering?</p> <p>Picture Tuesday standup. Maya, an EM on a payments squad, is proud. Cycle time dropped. Then a rollback lands at 4 p.m. because an AI-authored retry loop double-charged a webhook. Nobody in review asked how idempotency worked. The tool was not the failure. The silent approve was.</p> <p>Names

Outcome

<p>Eleven of twenty-four AI-assisted pull requests merged last week with zero review comments. Median time-to-approve: nine minutes. Tests green. That number should reverse a buy. It should also reverse a self-host.</p> <p>Why would you add capacity to a lane that already stopped being engineering?</p> <p>Picture Tuesday standup. Maya, an EM on a payments squad, is proud. Cycle time dropped. Then a rollback lands at 4 p.m. because an AI-authored retry loop double-charged a webhook. Nobody in review asked how idempotency worked. The tool was not the failure. The silent approve was.</p> <p>Names

Evidence

Should Your Squad Expand AI Capacity When Reviewers Go Quiet? Use This Question-Rate Gate

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