“the act of merging um is starting to look a lot like um high-performance uh database problems where you have serialization and you have a single ledger where every single change needs to go in and you to lock the the database in order to be able to commit.”

— Hugo Santos and Madison Faulkner, Namespace

Video moment · 9:35 · youtube.com

From “CI/CD Is Dead, Agents Need Continuous Compute and Computers — Hugo Santos and Madison Faulkner”, found 2026-10-14.

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Their proposal is a “pre-merge” queue that reconciles parallel changes before they reach the repository. Namespace sells compute for CI and agents. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.