Pattern: Release Engineering Is the New Bottleneck — Agent-Authored PRs Surge From 4M to 17M in Six Months

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paddo.dev documents a structural shift: agent-authored pull requests have grown from 4 million to 17 million in six months, moving the constraint from code review to release engineering. 'Creation runs at machine speed. Release engineering does not.' Teams that haven't automated their merge-to-deploy pipeline are now accumulating agent-generated PR queues faster than humans can review, test, and ship them. The bottleneck has moved downstream.