alt Hacker NewsThere’s an interesting nugget of an idea in this ad. But the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired. What I want out of the PR interface is to be able to ask an agent questions and get back supported answers and to be able to easily see the changes live in a system so I can test them. That requires solving a huge problem of iterative deployments but if you could do that the value of stacked PRs would be immense. If someone doesn’t do this then PRs will just be abandoned.
There's a much more interesting idea that I'm waiting for somebody to do, which is just have AI break down a PR into digestible chunks for me. Stacked PRs are a nice idea but they require the developer to follow the pattern. I'd rather be able to get a big 50+ file PR, and have it be broken down into bite size areas I can review and check along as I go.
This would be especially helpful for mobile, where reading a traditional diff is basically impossible.