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Usually I don't, because the CI bot does it. I do read the code thoroughly though.

Only if something really draws my attention do I pull and run a particular PR (CR, CL, whatever yo call it). Once I did that to illustrate that the change introduces a security issue, so I had to write an exploit against it, and demonstrate how it works. (It helped.)




I agree with this take. Generally it’s the tests job to run it, but test coverage is not 100%, so “sometimes” is a really good answer here.




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