The Death of the Pull Request: Why Manual Code Reviews are Obsolete

The industry is suffering from a collective delusion. We’ve treated the manual Pull Request (PR) as a sacred ritual of "quality," yet it has become the single greatest bottleneck in the modern delivery pipeline. As we move into an era of Generative AI and agentic workflows, the traditional code review isn't just slow—it’s redundant. If you want to maximize delivery efficiency, you need to stop policing lines of code and start orchestrating intelligence. The "Cargo Cult" of Manual Review Most tea