84% of a PR’s open-to-merge lifecycle is spent waiting for approval. Once it gets the green light, it takes a median of 10 minutes to merge.
Instead of waiting for someone to sign off, you can now get an approval as soon as Copilot reviews your pull request.
github.blog/changelog/2026…
- 84% of a PR’s open-to-merge lifecycle is spent waiting for approval. Once it gets the green light, it takes a median of 10 minutes to merge. Instead of waiting for someone to sign off, you can now get an approval as soon as Copilot reviews your pull request. github.blog/changelog/2026…
Why not get the AI to review on your computer and git merge?
the approval only means something if the reviewer gets independent context. let the same assumptions write the code and judge the code and you've automated self-approval.
Yeah but copilot instantly eats up usage on a moderately sized pr