Recently, I submitted a pull request to a project and had an experience that felt very different from the usual OSS workflow in the past.
Instead of the typical back-and-forth with a human maintainer, most of the interaction in my PR came from automated systems: Copilot suggestions, Vercel-related checks, and CI-driven review comments. The maintainer eventually approved the PR with minimal direct discussion, and it was merged successfully.
What stood out to me wasn't just that the PR got merged, but how the review process felt distributed across multiple non-human participants.
A different kind of PR conversation
In this case, I found myself responding to:
