Leading engineering for PRs and Copilot Code Review @ GitHub. Previously Firebase, Parse, Google Cloud, Microsoft. I like building things developers love.
Confession: I’ve scrolled past dozens of comments on a PR just to find out why I couldn’t merge it. More times than I’d like to admit.
Agents have made this a lot worse. They push commits and leave review comments of their own, and all of it lands in the timeline. PR timelines
A lot of AI product design starts with "what can the AI do here?" I've come around to thinking that shouldn't be the first question, and I wrote up why:
A much-needed refresh of the repo pull requests page landed in public preview yesterday. Very much in line with the rework we did on github.com/pulls earlier this year: queries that can do AND/OR and nesting, content assist while you type, a filter sidebar, a compact mode,
I spend an embarrassing amount of PR time scrolling through the whole timeline to work out what's actually being asked of me. So here's a peek at something we've been trying on our own PRs. Comments get a lot more room, what needs doing next is up top, and the timeline is a summary off to the side. It's much faster, too. What would you want out of this page?