I’m not the biggest fan of agentic development as a concept, but where it shines is breaking up some work that you did into logical, smaller pull requests that are easier to review, and picking up any little mistakes you might’ve made along the way. Maybe add some extra tests. In any case, whilst hard at work, I left Codex with the daunting task of breaking up a pull request I made to Portal back in June and subsequently forgot about, into smaller, more digestible chunks.
This is such an awesome feature. I often find myself in the middle of the battle between needing to chain pull requests and painstakingly remind reviewers not to review Y before X and ideally not to squash before everything goes into the trunk in case we run into merge conflicts, etc. This has resolved all of that pain.
Kudos GitHub. Now, if you could bring this functionality to Azure DevOps, I would be so happy.
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