“Thousands of agents working on their own branches in one repository produce a sustained write rate that converges on a single point in our architecture. Merges contend on one reference. Trunk-based development, release trains, and merge queues funnel all that work onto a single ref that has to absorb every merge.”
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From “Merges contend on one reference”, found 2026-10-16.
The platform vendor confirms the problem one layer down. The main ref and push latency are now the bottleneck, not human review. Published 2026-10-06.
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