“And it’s not an AI review problem or anything. It’s really just like a release problem, like managing the merge queues, humans getting access to the right set of data in the repository and things like that.”
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From “Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code”, found 2026-10-14.
He is describing the agent-heavy companies he talks to: the churn agents cause is far greater than humans cause. Machine transcript.