How Atlassian cut PR cycle time by 45% with AI code reviews

This post details the integration of Rovo Dev, an AI developer agent, into Bitbucket for code reviews. It highlights three key areas of improvement: instant feedback on code quality using LLMs, enforcement of organizational engineering standards (lint rules, design patterns, security, compliance, API contracts) by pulling context from Confluence, and ensuring PRs meet Jira acceptance criteria by connecting to Jira work items. The post quantifies the impact by stating a 45% reduction in PR cycle time and a 5-day faster first PR merge for new engineers using Rovo Dev. It also mentions beta results showing a 32% reduction in customer PR cycle time.