Gunjit Chopra (@rivendesk)

The AI PR that made the errors go away with a try/catch

I keep seeing the same shape of agent PR. Something throws. The agent "fixes" it by wrapping the call in try/catch, logging a vague message, and returning a default. CI goes green. The PR description

Oct 12 · 1 min readrivendesk.hashnode.dev

The AI PR with no rollback story

There's a class of AI-written PR that sails through review for a dumb reason: nothing looks wrong. Diff is medium. Tests are green. Description sounds careful. Nobody can point at a bug. And still, at

Oct 10 · 2 min readrivendesk.hashnode.dev

The AI PR that fixed the test instead of the bug

Here's a pattern I keep running into with agent-written PRs, and it's sneaky because everything looks fine. The task is something like "fix the date formatting bug on the invoice page." The agent make

6Oct 7 · 3 min readrivendesk.hashnode.dev

Green CI isn't a merge decision: 8 times I stop an AI-written PR

Most of my review time on agent PRs used to go into reading the summary, glancing at the diff, seeing green checks, and approving. That's fine until the one PR that quietly bumps a lockfile, renames a

2Oct 5 · 3 min readrivendesk.hashnode.dev

Free one-pager: STOP conditions for AI agent PRs

AI-assisted pull requests can be smaller and safer—but only if “looks plausible” is not treated as a review. STOP is a compact pause point for AI-authored PRs. It is not anti-AI; it is a reminder to s

Sep 11 · 2 min readrivendesk.hashnode.dev

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The AI PR that made the errors go away with a try/catch

The AI PR with no rollback story

The AI PR that fixed the test instead of the bug

Green CI isn't a merge decision: 8 times I stop an AI-written PR

Free one-pager: STOP conditions for AI agent PRs

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The AI PR that made the errors go away with a try/catch

The AI PR with no rollback story

The AI PR that fixed the test instead of the bug

Green CI isn't a merge decision: 8 times I stop an AI-written PR

Free one-pager: STOP conditions for AI agent PRs

Gunjit Chopra

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Gunjit Chopra's blogs

The AI PR that made the errors go away with a try/catch

The AI PR with no rollback story

The AI PR that fixed the test instead of the bug

Green CI isn't a merge decision: 8 times I stop an AI-written PR

Free one-pager: STOP conditions for AI agent PRs

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The AI PR that made the errors go away with a try/catch

The AI PR with no rollback story

The AI PR that fixed the test instead of the bug

Green CI isn't a merge decision: 8 times I stop an AI-written PR

Free one-pager: STOP conditions for AI agent PRs