This struck me too, but I think it is intentionally a high limit to prevent problems like relatively low impact/high LoC tests from tipping a small change into a large one. That would encourage gamification like skipping useful scenarios to keep a change "small".

The other criteria are more important.

Yep a small changes is one computer screen of diff (36 to 48 lines) excluding generated changes (lock files, formatted files,…)

> Only my personal view but even 1000 LoC is not a "small change".

To make matters worse, they effectively implemented a YOLO allowlist to allow a specific developer to batch 1k loc changes to the set of services they are working on without requiring any scrutiny.

Crazy stuff.

They could achieve this in a much simpler way by just removing PR requirements from those users in those projects.

But this has "agents".

AND, not OR.