> When you’re staring at the diff view,

Bold assumption that people are looking at the diffs at all. They leave that for their coworkers agents.

Will the diffs be small enough for people to even usefully wade through them?

You're a gamblin' man, I see...

thank you. I knew there was something I was missing

I really hope that was your creativity and not AI

Indeed it was (I was listening to it while stumbling across this post). Also, fun fact: The Gambler was written by Don Schlitz while working as a Computer Operator in 76' which makes it all the more relevant [1].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230130060050/https://www.rolli...