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Code review in the age of AI: Why developers will always own the merge button

Summary by The GitHub Blog
When GitHub first shipped the pull request (PR) back in 2008, it wrapped a plain-text diff in a social workflow: comments, approvals, and a merge button that crucially refused to light up without at least one thumbs up from another developer. That design decision hard-wired accountability into modern software and let maintainers scale far beyond hallway conversations or e-mail patches. Seventeen years later, just about every “agentic” coding too…
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The GitHub Blog broke the news in on Monday, July 14, 2025.
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