I think the Ai agent will directly make a PR - tickets are for humans with limited mental capacity.

At least in my company we are close to that flywheel.

Tickets need to exist purely from a governance perspective.

Tickets may well not look like they do now, but some semblance of them will exist. I'm sure someone is building that right now.

No. It's not Jira.

Yes, so my point is that PRs act as that governance layer - with preview environments, you can see the complexity and risk of the change etc.

The agents have even more limited capacity

At the moment, maybe. But it's growing.

Even so they would probably still benefit from intermediate organisational steps.

For a while, sure.