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Risk-tier the merge so a finance team can ship safely
Say what this means in practice: "Auto-merge on low risk keeps the team fast on the boring 80%."
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Risk-tier the merge so a finance team can ship safelyan AI reviewer plus humans where risk warrants
Cursor's finance team builds their accounting apps inside the company mono-repo, in a section reserved for them, and uses PRs as the approval control. Every PR is reviewed by BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition., Cursor's own AI code reviewer, and the gating is tiered by risk. Low-risk PRs merge once Bugbot blesses them. Medium and high-risk PRs still need a human engineer's sign-off. That's how a non-engineering team ships into a shared codebase without becoming a liability.
Auto-merge on low risk keeps the team fast on the boring 80%; a required human approver on medium and high risk keeps a person accountable where a mistake costs real money.
“If they are low risk, they go through without needing any additional approval as long as BugbotCursor's automated PR reviewer that posts inline findings and can push fix commits from isolated VMs. Press Enter for the full definition. has given it the blessing. If it's medium or high risk, it still requires an engineer approval.”
Don't pitch a Silicon Valley deploy pipeline that ignores controls. If your answer lets one person write and release a change to the ledger with no second approver, you've failed segregation of duties and you'll lose the audit-minded interviewer. Velocity and controls are not opposed here; the same PR gate serves both.
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