We Turned Off Dependabot. Our Codebase Is Healthier Than Ever.

I know this sounds reckless. Hear me out.Our team of 6 maintains 12 microservices. Dependabot was generating 40-60 PRs per week across our repos. Every Monday morning: a wall of green checkmarks waiting for human review.Here's the dirty secret: nobody was actually reviewing them. We'd scan the changelog, check if CI passed, and hit merge. That's not a security process. That's a rubber stamp.## The Breaking PointThree months ago, a Dependabot PR updated a transitive dependency that changed the behavior of a date parsing library. CI passed. We merged. Production broke 6 hours later when a batch job tried to process timestamps in a format the new version handled differently.The post-mortem was brutal: we'd been treating automated dependency updates as zero-risk. They're not.## What We Do InsteadWe didn't just turn off Dependabot and call it a day. We replaced it with a deliberate process:### 1. Monthly Dependency Review DayFirst Monday of every month, the whole team spends 2 hours reviewi