“Larger pull requests lead to longer delays which lead to more time to make changes which leads to larger pull requests.”

Claim by @kentbeck that can be empirically tested with repository mining research. Not aware of papers that look at such reinforcement loops.

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/thinking-about-code-review

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