Liz Fong-Jones: 2x the PRs, 1.5x the Incidents

The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow
29 September 2026 49 min
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Episode Description
Honeycomb went from 30 to 70 merged pull requests a day in three months. The catch: automated code review, not code generation, became the real bottleneck of software automation. Liz Fong-Jones, Technical Fellow at Honeycomb, explains why incidents still rose 1.5x, how their internal bot Autobot now reviews every PR, and why AI amplifies whatever org you already have.What we cover:– How automated code review lets humans focus on design, not trivial bugs– Using a decision model like Jev to decide

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