Review economics

cockroachdb/cockroach

Read from the 100 most recently merged pull requests ·

Pull requests with attributed agent authorship took only 1.0× the reviews submitted of the rest.

≥26%

Attributed

a floor

27

Attributed PRs

73

Other PRs

100

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Per pull requestAttributedRestRatio
Review rounds0.10.010.8×
Reviews submitted1.51.51.0×
Commits after first review0.30.21.6×
Reverts0.00.0
Time to merge3.0d3.9d0.8×

How this was measured

26% of merged commits carry agent attribution — a floor, not the share; tools that only complete code inline leave no commit trail, so the unattributed side includes AI-assisted work; reads 100 of 75710 merged PRs — the rest have not been analyzed yet.

Detected: Claude Code.

“Attributed” means a commit carried an agent’s signature — a co-author trailer, an agent commit identity, or an agent bot account. Tools that only complete code inline leave no such mark, so the other column is “rest”, not “human-written”. Full method and its limits

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