February 24-26, 2027
Montreal, Canada
The PR Review Bottleneck Nobody Talks About
Teams ship code more slowly than they think, and the real slowdown isn't CI, deploys, or automation. It's the days your pull requests sit waiting for review. This talk breaks down what research shows about review latency, why humans struggle to review large PRs, and how AI might make this bottleneck better, or much worse. You'll leave with concrete changes to make to your review cycle.
Adam Gordon Bell
Pulumi
Adam Gordon Bell is a Community Engineer at Pulumi and creator of the CoRecursive podcast, with several million downloads and interviews with the creators of SQLite, Chef, and PowerShell. He has over 20 years of experience as a software engineer and has written widely-read technical guides on AWK, jq, Bazel, and containers. Previously, he built cloud security products at Tenable and led developer relations at Earthly.
