Fixing the PR Bottleneck — Matt Pocock, AIHero

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The pull request has always been the bottleneck, and now it's slowing down every organization. Agents make it trivial to open a PR. They make it only slightly easier to open one worth reviewing.

In this talk from AI Engineer Paris 2026, Matt Pocock asks why that is and what to do about it. Code is the environment your agent works in, so agent experience (AX) deserves the same rigor that developer experience (DX) got. Fixing the bottleneck means fixing what happens around the PR, not how fast it gets written.

Recorded at AI Engineer Paris 2026 in the Coding Agents & Software Factories track.

About the speaker
Matt Pocock is a developer educator and one of the best-known voices in the TypeScript and AI engineering communities, known for making complex topics clear and practical. He created AI Hero, a platform that teaches developers to build production-grade AI applications, and AI Coding for Real Engineers, a course that helps working engineers bring AI coding tools into their workflows. His hands-on, no-nonsense teaching has helped hundreds of thousands of developers level up.

X: https://x.com/mattpocockuk
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mapocock/
AI Hero: https://aihero.dev

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