Depot says GitHub's pull request model cannot keep pace with coding agents

CEO Kyle Galbraith's critique follows Depot CI and Depot Code, extending Depot from build acceleration into the delivery stack.

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Why it matters

Depot's expansion shows where developer-tool founders expect AI coding pressure to move next: source control, CI, identity and policy.

Illustration of Depot criticizing GitHub's pull-request model as autonomous coding agents push code faster than human workflows.

Depot co-founder and CEO Kyle Galbraith argued in a July 29th essay that GitHub's branch, pull request, review and merge workflow was built for human-paced development and is becoming a bottleneck as coding agents produce parallel streams of work.…

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