What we owe reviewers in the age of AI
In the age of AI, that problem has been supercharged, and now not only of the largest open source projects, but essentially every repo at every organization is receiving a deluge of pull requests of dubious quality. That means we all need to be working to make the reviewer’s job as easy as possible, even when it demands more time from us as the author.Remember that when you are opening a PR and asking for review, you are making request for the time and effort of a fellow human being, which I believe is a sacred act. In the past, you earned your claim on that time with every keystroke you spent writing the code.
- ▪In the age of AI, that problem has been supercharged, and now not only of the largest open source projects, but essentially every repo at every organization is receiving a deluge of pull requests of dubious quality.
- ▪That means we all need to be working to make the reviewer’s job as easy as possible, even when it demands more time from us as the author.Remember that when you are opening a PR and asking for review, you are making request for the time and
- ▪In the past, you earned your claim on that time with every keystroke you spent writing the code.
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| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:26:38 +0000 |
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What we owe reviewers in the age of AISpending a couple bucks on tokens does not entitle you to precious review timeCollin McNultySep 08, 202641Share(Adapted from my Lightning talk at Apache Airflow Summit 2026)For a long time in open source projects like Airflow, the limiting factor for improving the project hasn’t been the amount of people writing code, but the amount of people willing and able to review those changes to make sure they are sensible, high quality, and aligned with the goals of the project. In the age of AI, that problem has been supercharged, and now not only of the largest open source projects, but essentially every repo at every organization is receiving a deluge of pull requests of dubious quality.
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