10 Critical Insights for Reviewing Agent-Generated Pull Requests
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Agent pull requests are flooding your queue. You might have already approved one without a second thought. The tests passed, the code looked clean, and you clicked merge. But that ease of approval is exactly the problem. Recent research reveals that agent-generated code introduces hidden technical debt, redundancy, and operational blind spots—while making reviewers feel surprisingly good about approving it. The volume is only growing: GitHub Copilot code review now handles over 60 million reviews, and more than one in five code reviews involve an agent. This isn't a call to slow down—it's a call to be intentional. Here are ten things you need to know to review agent pull requests effectively.
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