“We haven't been able to effectively replicate the industry standard of a global repository lock on the merge queue, so instead, we've invested in post-merge and pre-deploy automated testing. This does mean that concurrent changes can conflict, but Claude can typically fix these conflicts faster than humans can even identify them.”
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From “Anthropic dropped the merge-queue lock”, found 2026-10-16.
The strongest first-hand evidence yet that merge queues stop working at agent volume. Instead of serialising merges, they accept conflicts and let agents repair them. Published 2026-10-13.
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