Feature flags
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A technique for turning features on or off without redeploying code.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 2 in the last 30 days. Confidence 40%.
Evidence (2)
- 4InfoQ·8/7/2026framework_updateRootly Ends Small PR Rule as AI Agent Code Generation Grows
Rootly says its long-standing rule favoring small pull requests is no longer effective because AI agents now generate most of its code. The company is shifting review criteria toward blast radius, using feature flags and rollback readiness to judge risk instead of line count.
- 4The New Stack·7/16/2026researchThe Real Bottleneck in Independent Deployments Is Validation
The article argues that many platform teams already have strong deployment tooling, but still ship changes in batches because they cannot validate each change independently with enough confidence. It says shared environments and release trains were practical responses to scarce validation capacity, and that coding agents may worsen the problem by increasing change volume and batch size.