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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.

By Vi TranPolylane Blog
Nobody reads pull request descriptions, so we made videos

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Originally published by Polylane Blog on Oct 14, 2026.

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