Two Security Queues Are Worse Than One

GitHub's recent redesign of its pull request dashboard addresses the bottleneck created by AI-generated code, which increases the volume of pull requests but also the time needed for their review. While AI tools like Copilot have significantly increased the number of pull requests and their size, they have also led to slower end-to-end cycle times due to review queues. The proposed solution is a better triage system, but the real issue lies in the generation of separate security queues, which can exacerbate the problem by decoupling fixes from their context, leading to unowned backlogs and potentially introducing new vulnerabilities. The text argues for addressing security issues within the development loop itself, allowing fixes to be made before pull requests open, which would prevent the creation of additional queue items and enable human reviewers to focus on judgment calls rather than cleanup tasks. This approach is exemplified by Wingman, which integrates a scan-fix-verify loop in the coding process to resolve vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing the efficiency and efficacy of the review process by keeping security issues from becoming separate artifacts in the pull request queue.

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