Merge first, bisect later

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Owen Owen

Software dev from first principles: manual code review doesn’t make sense anymore. It’s too much of a bottleneck. Rather merge and git bisect problems. This shifts risk right towards prod, which means we’ll see more products around software lifecycle infrastructure (canary deploys, automated rollback, observability) and fewer around PR review bots.

Related: I distrust tools I don’t want to use anymore. s/cursor/claude/. Each one felt permanent until it didn’t. The pattern is always the same – more autonomy, less supervision.