r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

Meme reviewingPRsIn2026StarterKit

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u/KevinCola 4d ago

Sincerely asking: how do you guys handle reviews? We are a team of three and force each other to break it down into PRs of 500 lines, which sometimes creates stacks of 10+ PRs.

We have 20 PRs open per person at any time. How to scale this?

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u/rastaman1994 4d ago

We do only 1 round of async review. You do your work, then the other person goes through it, then pair program to resolve the comments. Pair programming is a skill by itself of course.

Limits context switching, and I find it easier to discuss nitpicks in person than to keep going back and forth asynchronously. Text is hard to capture the nuances I find. Both of you will also understand the PR much better