# andrea-laforgia-blog

Andrea Laforgia's substack at `a4al6a.substack.com`. The name `a4al6a` is the bottom-of-the-URL slug, not a meaningful handle — the author is Andrea Laforgia. Writes long-form essays grounded in peer-reviewed software engineering research, large-scale industry data (DORA, Microsoft Research), and named practitioner sources rather than personal opinion.

The "Stop Using Pull Requests" piece is the first ingested into this wiki and is characteristic: pulls citations from Bacchelli & Bird, Hannay et al., Arisholm et al., Muller & Tichy, Williams et al., Nagappan, DORA, ThoughtWorks Radar, and stitches them into a single argument against blocking-async PRs as default workflow.

## Ingested articles

- [[stop-using-pull-requests]] — March 2026 evidence synthesis on PR antipatterns, the T\*D alternative, and a five-stage transition path

## Related

- [[i-dont-want-your-prs]] — Ciężarkiewicz's parallel post-LLM critique of PRs from the OSS-maintainer side
- [[billjings-git-not-fine]] — Bill Jings on git workflow primitives breaking under stacked PRs