“I think merge [queues] works for humans at a certain scale, but the merge [queues] could get quite deep. But then if you sort of 10X that, like, conservatively, I think 10X that, and then if you buy into, like, hype cycles and you 100 or 1,000X that, I think it gets completely untenable”
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From “Mitchell Hashimoto’s new way of writing code”, found 2026-10-14.
Quoted from the machine transcript on the newsletter post.