Renovate opens forty pull requests a week. How do you stop update bots flooding humans or merging danger?

Dependency bots fail as noise generators or silent auto-mergers. Tiering by risk, weekly batching, and treating bot PRs with a real review SLA is what keeps updates flowing.

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Dependency bots fail as noise generators or silent auto-mergers. Tiering by risk, weekly batching, and treating bot PRs with a real review SLA is what keeps updates flowing.

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