Are long code review cycles killing your engineering team’s velocity? Learn how top engineering teams are shipping code faster without sacrificing quality.In this episode, Greg Foster, CTO and co-founder of Graphite, discusses the evolution of code review practices, from the fundamentals of pull requests to the future of AI in code review workflows. He shares the secrets behind how the Graphite team became one of the most productive engineering teams by leveraging techniques like small code changes and stacked PRs (pull requests).Key topics discussed:<ul><li>The evolution of code review from bug-hunting to knowledge sharing</li><li>Best practices for PRs and why small PRs get better feedback</li><li>How stacked PRs eliminate waiting time in development workflows</li><li>The rise of AI in the code review process</li><li>Why AI code review works best as an automated CI check</li><li>How Graphite achieves P99 engineering productivity</li><li>Hiring engineers in the age of AI-assisted coding</li></ul>Timestamps:<ul><li>(00:00) Trailer & Intro</li><li>(02:21) Career Turning Points</li><li>(05:11) Now is The Golden Time to Be in Software Engineering</li><li>(09:08) The Evolution of Code Review in Software Development</li><li>(14:59) The Popularity of Pull Request Workflow</li><li>(21:01) Pull Request Best Practices</li><li>(26:17) The Stacked PR and Its Benefits</li><li>(34:07) How Graphite Ships Code Remarkably Fast</li><li>(40:03) The Cool Things About AI Code Review</li><li>(45:23) Graphite’s Unique Recipes for Engineering Productivity</li><li>(50:55) Hiring Engineers in the Age of AI</li><li>(55:31) 2 Tech Lead Wisdom</li></ul>_____Greg Foster’s BioGreg Foster is the CTO and co-founder of Graphite, an a16z and Anthropic-backed company helping teams like Snowflake, Figma, and Perplexity ship faster and scale AI-generated code with confidence. Prior to Graphite, Greg was a dev tools engineer at Airbnb. There, he experienced the impact of robust internal tooling on developer velocity and co-founded Graphite to bring powerful, AI-powered code review to every team. Greg holds a BS in Computer Science from Harvard University.Follow Greg:<ul><li>LinkedIn – <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregmfoster" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">linkedin.com/in/gregmfoster</a></li><li>X – <a href="https://x.com/gregmfoster" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/gregmfoster</a></li><li>Email – <a href="mailto:greg@graphite.dev" target="_blank">greg@graphite.dev</a></li><li>Graphite – <a href="https://graphite.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">graphite.dev</a></li><li>Graphite X – <a href="https://x.com/withgraphite" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">x.com/withgraphite</a></li></ul>Like this episode?Show notes & transcript: <a href="https://techleadjournal.dev/episodes/231" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">techleadjournal.dev/episodes/231</a>.Follow @techleadjournal on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/techleadjournal/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"> LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/techleadjournal" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/techleadjournal/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>.Buy me a <a href="https://techleadjournal.dev/tip" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">coffee</a> or become a <a href="https://techleadjournal.dev/patron" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">patron</a>.

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