“Green is not coherent. Ten agent PRs can each pass CI alone, pass again as a batch, and still be a mess together: three flavors of the same helper, two designs pulling in opposite directions, a thousand lines no human read. A merge queue keeps main buildable. It does not keep main good.”
Quote · julien.danjou.info
From “Merge Queues Were Built for Humans. Agents Don’t Wait.”, found 2026-10-14.
From a merge-queue vendor’s CEO, which he discloses. He argues queues must speculate, batch and bisect at agent volume, and that flaky tests break the bisection.