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I review a *lot* of code, daily, and a new metric has popped up in the back of my mind. I call it "Time to First WTF". For a high quality PR, I'd say the # TTFWTF is around 5 minutes. On any non-trivi

I review a *lot* of code, daily, and a new metric has popped up in the back of my mind. I call it "Time to First WTF". For a high quality PR, I'd say the # TTFWTF is around 5 minutes. On any non-trivial PR there will always be something that looks weird on first sight. The interesting thing is that I have observed that # genai based PRs, or AI-assisted PRs, generally have a TTFWTF around 10s. I am

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I review a *lot* of code, daily, and a new metric has popped up in the back of my mind. I call it "Time to First WTF". For a high quality PR, I'd say the # TTFWTF is around 5 minutes. On any non-trivi

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I review a *lot* of code, daily, and a new metric has popped up in the back of my mind. I call it "Time to First WTF". For a high quality PR, I'd say the # TTFWTF is around 5 minutes. On any non-trivial PR there will always be something that looks weird on first sight. The interesting thing is that I have observed that # genai based PRs, or AI-assisted PRs, generally have a TTFWTF around 10s. I am