Shift Left Until the PR Is Just a Confirmation
Agentic tooling made pull requests cheap and plentiful, so the bottleneck moved from writing code to trusting it. The answer is not another review loop but front-loaded rigor: invest the engineering effort ahead of time to build a full, production-shaped synthetic environment you run locally, so that validation itself becomes cheap and the PR turns into a context-sharing mechanism instead of an approval gate. Tools like .NET Aspire and Dapr show what that inner loop can look like, and the same principles carry over to homegrown systems.