PlanetScale manages cloud database workloads for its customers' most sensitive data. Reliability is the product and every code change pushed to production must be flawless. As agents made code generation cheap and fast, code review became the new bottleneck in the software development lifecycle.
To ensure correctness and ship code to production with confidence, PlanetScale adopted Bugbot as a dedicated agentic review layer. Today, roughly 80% of Bugbot comments are addressed before merge time, preventing issues from reaching production and saving PlanetScale the equivalent of two full-time engineers worth of review effort.
Agents shift bottlenecks in the SDLC downstream
To maintain product reliability, the PlanetScale engineering team sets an uncompromising bar for code review. "Reliability is at the core of our product. Every change pushed to production must be flawless," said Fatih Arslan, a software engineer at PlanetScale.
As coding agents became central to development workflows, bottlenecks shifted downstream, from code generation to code review. "Code has become cheap. The bottleneck is now whether your code is correct and whether you understand what it does," explained Arslan.
