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# A Three-Person Team Shipping Hundreds of PRs Moves the Bottleneck to Review

## Retrieval answer

The observed-work value is in the changed constraint: task definition, review, integration, and acceptance become scarcer than raw code generation. The case should be read as one team's operating evidence, not a universal productivity multiplier.

Wes McKinney documented a three-person agentic engineering workflow that produced hundreds of pull requests.

New Runtime reading: The observed-work value is in the changed constraint: task definition, review, integration, and acceptance become scarcer than raw code generation. The case should be read as one team's operating evidence, not a universal productivity multiplier.

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