“Before I trusted this workflow, I back tested the scoring against months of clean up history. Then I ran it live. Seven for seven PRs with green CI. Now it runs daily on my laptop and hands work back for me to review. … $1.26 a pull request. A backlog of around 520 flags a year runs for under $700. If you had engineers working on this by hand, at least $26,000 that you're looking at.”
Context. The speaker is a Reddit Android engineer. In the talk he describes this agent as running in his local workflow and on his laptop, and says some of his other practices are from his personal side projects. The $26,000 is his own estimate of manual cost, and the PR count is a small sample.
Andrew Orobator, Senior Software Engineer. Describes an agent he built and runs himself and the practices he uses with coding agents; a practitioner speaking for himself, not for Reddit, and he says some practices are from his personal side projects.
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Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-11-01).
Whisper SRT 00:11:59-00:12:24 matches. Source says 'A $1.26 a pull request', and the passage's '…' covers the 'A'. The sentence 'This is the work…' is omitted without a mark but falls after the quoted text.
How to cite this passage
Andrew Orobator (Reddit), “Scale the Judgment, Not the Model”, AI Engineer (YouTube), 2026-06-30, at 11:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MudaeKdBSk Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/reddit-flag-agent-seven-for-seven-green-ci-1-26-per-pull-request-2026
Context. The speaker is a Reddit Android engineer. In the talk he describes this agent as running in his local workflow and on his laptop, and says some of his other practices are from his personal side projects.
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