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Design Engineering

37signals' Basecamp 5 Passed Every Pull Request Review, Then Broke

At 37signals, AI-agent pull requests for Basecamp 5 each passed review, but together they wrecked the architecture, exposing who wasn't watching the whole system.

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Development

Spotify Says Its PR Thresholds No Longer Apply

Spotify's 16 September retrospective argues its PR-size and complexity warning signs may be outdated, not broken, but nobody has re-derived them.

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Development

The Coding Agent's Self-Report Covers One Action in Eleven

A 5,851-session study finds coding agents' self-written wrap-ups cite about one action in eleven, and drift back toward the plan exactly when it was abandoned.

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Development

GitHub Copilot Can Approve Pull Requests, Then Close Its Own Comments

Two September 2026 GitHub Copilot updates let it approve pull requests and resolve its own review comments, a loop GitHub has yet to publish any accuracy data for.

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Development

The Repair Loop Has No Brakes: Fixing Code That Isn't Broken

A 9 September 2026 study finds AI self-repair breaks working code faster than it fixes real bugs once nothing external tells the model when to stop.

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Development

Merge Rate Became AI Coding's Scoreboard, and It Doesn't Agree

Four 2026 studies score coding agents by pull-request merge rate, but rankings flip between papers, suggesting the metric tracks the repo, not the agent.

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Development

Open Source's No-More-Pull-Requests Moment

Ladybird, tldraw, and the whole Jazzband collective have stopped taking public pull requests. It isn't a verdict on AI code quality — it's open source rebuilding its trust model from scratch.