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The video addresses a common pain point for developers (waiting for PR reviews) and presents a clear solution with a new feature from a widely recognized platform (GitHub). The explanation is concise and uses visual aids to illustrate the concept.

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The video explains GitHub's new 'Stacked PRs' feature, which allows developers to create multiple smaller pull requests that can be reviewed independently. This contrasts with the traditional method where developers might get blocked waiting for a large PR to be reviewed.

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1Introduction of GitHub's Stacked PRs
2Explanation of the traditional PR workflow and its drawbacks
3Demonstration of how Stacked PRs work
4Comparison with previous methods
5Reasoning behind the new feature (AI-driven code generation)
6Concluding thought and call for audience opinion

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GitHub ACTS - it is a platform for code hosting and collaboration, and the video discusses a new feature it released called Stacked PRs. Removing it would change the subject of the video. GitHub merely APPEARS - its logo is visible on screen.

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Stacked PRs? What do yall think? #coding #programming

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DUDE GITHUB JUST RELEASED STACKED PRS A STACKED PR EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE BASICALLY YOU'RE NOW ABLE TO STACK PRS ON SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR ONE BEFORE YOU KEEP WORKING ON IT OK AND WHAT EXACTLY IS THE POINT OF THIS HOW MOST DEVELOPERS WORK YOU GET ASSIGNED A FAIRLY LARGE TASK PR TO GET THE FIRST PART OF IT DONE YOU SUBMIT THAT FOR REVIEW BUT BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER CHANGES WAITING TO GET REVIEWED IT TAKES YOUR TEAMMATES A COUPLE HOURS TO TO REVIEW THAT CHANGE AND DURING THAT TIME YOU DON'T WANNA START WORK ON ANOTHER PR CAUSE WHAT IF THIS SO YOU END UP GETTING BLOCKED ON YOUR SECOND PR FOR THESE GUYS TO REVIEW YOUR CODE WELL WITH THIS INSTEAD YOU CAN JUST CREATE ANOTHER PR ON TOP OF THAT INITIAL PR AND EACH PR ONLY CONTAINS SPECIFIC CHANGES OFF WITH A LARGE PR COVERING A DATABASE CHANGE THEN YOU COULD DO AN API LEVEL CHANGE AND A FRONT END CHANGE EACH PART INDIVIDUALLY THAT'S KIND OF NICE IS THERE ANY REASON DO THIS NOW HOW ONE OF THE BIGGEST REASONS IS BECAUSE WITH AI PEOPLE ARE WRITING A LOT MORE CODE AS A DEVELOPER YOU COULD JUST PATCH AN AGENT 4,000 LINE PR IN 20 MINUTES BUT WITH STACKED PRS YOU CAN HAVE YOUR INTO MULTIPLE SMALLER PR TO REVIEW THE CODE IT BECOMES A LOT EASIER TO DO SO I'M STILL NOT CONVINCED WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK

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Dude GitHub just released stacked PRs. A stacked PR. Exactly what it sounds like. Basically you're now able to stack PRs on so you don't have to wait for one before you keep working on it. Okay, and what exactly is the point of this? How most developers work. You get assigned a fairly large task PR to get the first part of it done. You submit that for review. But because there's other changes waiting to get reviewed, it takes your teammates a couple hours to to review that change. And during that time, you don't wanna start work on another PR cause what if this? So you end up getting blocked on your second PR for these guys to review your code. Well, with this instead, you can just create another PR on top of that initial PR. And each PR only contains specific changes. Off with a large PR covering a database change, then you could do an API level change and a front end change. Each part individually. That's kind of nice. Is there any reason do this now? How? One of the biggest reasons is because with AI, people are writing a lot more code. As a developer, you could just patch an agent, a 4,000 line PR in 20 minutes. But with stacked PRs, you can have your into multiple smaller PR to review the code. It becomes a lot easier to do so. I'm still not convinced. What do you guys think?