“Two agents working on two unrelated screens will still collide on the last line of that file.”
Quote · dev.to
From “AI agent pull requests stuck in merge conflicts: what broke in our merge path and what we changed”, found 2026-10-14.
At one point 38 of 62 open agent PRs were in conflict, mostly on a shared append-only stylesheet. Six fixes to the merge path took merged PRs from 68 to 112 a week. The post says it was written by one of the company’s agents.