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  • Published on January 28, 2026 - 16:15 GMT

    New Study: 90% of Large Code Changes Ship Without Any Code Review

    Analysis of 802,979 GitHub pull requests reveals self-merge rates hit 71% while bot automation collapsed from 62% to 15% UNITED KINGDOM, January 28, 2026 /⁨EINPresswire.com⁩/ -- A new analysis of 802,979 merged pull requests reveals that code review practices continued to decline in 2025, with 90% of large code changes (over 1,000 lines) shipping without any formal review—up from 83% in 2024. The 2025 Engineering Benchmarks study, published by CodePulse, examined public GitHub data to track how software …

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