Thorsten Ball 质疑：编程智能体时代还需要 Pull Request 吗
Thorsten Ball 说 PR 流程该淘汰了：审查交给 Opus 5.5 这类模型多轮交叉检查，讲解视频让模型现做，观点很尖锐。
Thorsten Ball 发文提出，在智能体编程时代 Pull Request 流程已经过时。他认为代码审查可以交给 Opus 5.5 等多个模型交叉检查，每个模型查四遍，比人工审查更能发现问题。知识共享方面，模型可以为任意代码生成讲解视频、演示文稿、播客和测验等材料。他还指出 CI 的本意是持续集成，与长期分支加 PR 的做法相反，智能体推送前应先跑完整个测试套件。
Real talk. PRs suck in the age of coding agents. There must be a better way. I agree with this post, agents are so capable now. Let them do the heavy lifting. They can generate (on demand) the right personalised views and artifacts that make things move a lot faster. Thorsten Ball @thorstenball Why are you still using pull requests? Is it for code review? If so, do you really think your or your colleagues catch bugs and mistakes that an Opus 5.5 or Fable or Astra won't find? You can literally spawn all three of them and have them check four times each. (Also, don't tell me you don't have a "stamp plz" Slack channel or group chat somewhere.) Is it for knowledge sharing? Surely there's better ways for that now than the PR, no? We have models that can generate explainer videos, presentations, podcasts, games, quizzes, walkthroughs, ... for any piece of code it can reach. Is CI the reason? Well ackshually, CI means continuous integration and its original meaning is the *opposite* of having long-lived branches and PRs. But, leaving that aside, your agents are hopefully already running the tests before they push something, and hopefully they can run as long as they want and don't block you so they can run the whole test suite and generate "irrefutable proof" and end-to-end demo videos and so on... And so they run the tests and confirm and then you push to a branch and everything runs again and then you merge and then it runs again? That doesn't make sense, does it? Maybe you work in open source and you accept contributions, in which case I can't speak to the value of pull requests. It's been 2 years since my last OSS contribution. But from what I heard, the time of the PR is coming to an end in OSS too? I honestly don't get why people still stick to PRs. With agents you can now move 10x faster, you can finally do real continuous integration, and get more confidence in the changes the agent made. Don't slow yourself down by having all the changes pile up in a PR. 🔗 View Quoted Tweet 💬 9 🔄 1 ❤️ 16 👀 1573 📊 8 ⚡
