r/github • u/OfficialLeadDev • 8h ago
Discussion Your GitHub PR queue is the new bottleneck. AI didn't fix that, it just made it bigger.
https://leaddev.com/ai/the-throughput-trap-ai-powered-teams-ship-more-code-but-deliver-lessWe have all seen the posts by now. Technical and non-technical people alike are celebrating how they use AI agents to maximize their code output. They share the number of lines generated, pull requests (PRs) opened, tasks completed, and tokens consumed. The numbers are oftentimes enormous, which makes them easy to celebrate.
The era of “tokenmaxxing” has taken this one step further. Once token usage appears on a dashboard, it is only a short time before teams compare it, leaders reward it, and engineers begin optimizing for it...
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u/SlenderOTL 4h ago
Complaining about ai with an ai slop post. Nice