Ship fast without breaking things

Every team slows down as it grows. More people, more code, more meetings, less shipping. It doesn't have to be that way.

These essays dig into velocity, teamwork, and taming complexity — the engineering side and the people side. They're the thinking behind Scaling Fast, my book on software engineering through hypergrowth.

Essays on shipping fast

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How do we auto-approve and merge 60% of PRs?

I'm still drowning in code review. Getting to ~16% auto-approved and merged PRs helped but it's not enough. How can we do 60%?