--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "6f7cd38f7f10794acc0631366cf0b430b74c874c862cadc03f4e7ecf668d8415" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/6f7cd38f?lang=en" title: "A software engineer details how he went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200+ after joining AI-native creator startup Tano eight months ago (Neil Kakkar/The Pragmatic Engineer)" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-11-04T09:45:17.000Z" category: "Industry" topics: ["coding"] source_urls: ["https://www.techmeme.com/261104/p11"] summary: "A software engineer went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200+ after joining AI-native creator startup Tano eight months ago." --- # A software engineer details how he went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200\+ after joining AI\-native creator startup Tano eight months ago \(Neil Kakkar/The Pragmatic Engineer\) > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-11-04T09:45:17.000Z **Category:** Industry **Topics:** coding ## Summary A software engineer went from merging eight to 20 pull requests per month to 200\+ after joining AI\-native creator startup Tano eight months ago\. ## Sources - [Story source]()