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  • Nobody reads pull request descriptions, so we made videos

    Almost none of the pull requests Polylane opens were asked for by an engineer, and a longer description does not make them easier to review. We are experimenting with a narrated video for every fix. Why, what it looks like, and what happened to merge rates.

    Polylane Blog6 min read
  • Turn your app into a context graph

    Agents that run software need a context graph of the app: every resource, what it connects to, the repository that deploys it and the team that owns it.

    Polylane Blog10 min read
  • We swapped our LLMs for Jev. It's 39% cheaper.

    Our on-call agent makes thousands of small decisions a day. We moved them from LLMs to Jev, a model that doesn't write text, and cut the cost by 39%.

    Polylane Blog7 min read
  • How we prevent slop from hitting prod

    Nothing in your pipeline asks whether a change is safe for prod. This is the check we built that does, and how we got it to finish before your tests do.

    Polylane Blog9 min read
  • Sub-agents are just wrong

    Polylane's autofix used to be a workflow of multiple agents, each responsible for a single task, with an orchestrator managing state between them. We moved to a single agent which does the entire job, from evidence gathering, hypothesis testing to pull request.

    Polylane Blog9 min read

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