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We stopped shipping feature flags in PRs

How a small process change cut our gate-cleanup debt to zero, with a one-line agent that opens a removal PR two weeks after a flag goes 100%.

Daria Kovacs · Staff Engineer · March 22, 2026 · 5 min read

Feature flags are a great way to ship safely. They're also a great way to grow technical debt by accident.

The debt sneaks up on you

Every flag you ship is a future PR you owe yourself. After a year, half the codebase is conditional on something that's been 100% rolled out for months.

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