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15 Oct 2026 37 found

Video

AI Coding Agents Are Breaking Big Codebases — Dan Adler, Sourcegraph

youtube.com · Dan Adler, Sourcegraph · from 3:20

“There are different coding standards being applied in different places by different agents across the codebase. There's duplicated code proliferating. You you already have a library that does this, but your agent doesn't know that.”
Link to this quote: AI Coding Agents Are Breaking Big Codebases — Dan Adler, Sourcegraph
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Adler’s point is about enterprises with tens of thousands of repositories, far too much code for an agent to fit in context or grep in real time. Sourcegraph’s answer is a code graph and search layer that agents can query across every repo, plus batch changes that roll a fix out to thousands of repos at once. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Automating Large Scale Refactors with Parallel Agents - Robert Brennan, OpenHands

youtube.com · Robert Brennan, OpenHands · from 9:20

“They have tens of thousands of developers, thousands of thousands of repositories. … they have seen a 30x improvement on time resolutions for these [CVEs] by doing uh orchestration at scale.”
Link to this quote: Automating Large Scale Refactors with Parallel Agents - Robert Brennan, OpenHands
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For one OpenHands customer, every new vulnerability starts an agent per repository that finds affected code, updates the dependency, fixes breaking API changes and opens a PR. The owning team only has to validate and merge it. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Automating Large Scale Refactors with Parallel Agents - Robert Brennan, OpenHands

youtube.com · Robert Brennan, OpenHands · from 30:08

“A slightly more sophisticated thing would be to create a dependency tree. … you start with like the leaf nodes in your dependency graph right you start with maybe your utility files get those migrated over um and then anything that depends on those you know it's going to have those those initial fixes in place”
Link to this quote: Automating Large Scale Refactors with Parallel Agents - Robert Brennan, OpenHands
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OpenHands splits large refactors into PR-sized batches that a single agent can finish in one pass. Batches run in parallel in dependency order, and a batch waits until the batches it depends on are verified and merged into a shared integration branch. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Automating Large Scale Refactors with Parallel Agents - Robert Brennan, OpenHands

youtube.com · Robert Brennan, OpenHands · from 33:14

“you can also have the agents basically share context with each other through a file like agent MD. … maybe they send a pull request into the file as they learn new things. Uh downside here is that sometimes agents will try and learn unimportant things. … doing some kind of human review seems to help.”
Link to this quote: Automating Large Scale Refactors with Parallel Agents - Robert Brennan, OpenHands
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When ten parallel agents all hit the same problem, OpenHands wants the fix shared between them. Brennan compares sharing all context, having a human paste in hints, letting agents edit a shared AGENTS.md with human review, and agent-to-agent messaging, which adds non-determinism. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Building Self-Improving Agent Software Factories — Suraj Gupta, Warp

youtube.com · Suraj Gupta, Warp · from 6:00

“Your [Sentry] your agent might get lucky and like be able to figure out the same root cause that it did the first time around, but that's not guaranteed. And and even if it does, you're you've probably wasted a lot of tokens re-gathering context on an issue that you've already fixed before.”
Link to this quote: Building Self-Improving Agent Software Factories — Suraj Gupta, Warp
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In Warp’s Oz cloud agent platform, an outer-loop agent extracts facts from each run into a versioned memory store attached to the agent, and later runs report which memories they used. Humans can review, edit or delete memories, and skill updates land as pull requests a person reviews. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Building uReview, Uber’s Multi-Agent Code Review Engine — Will Bond & Ameya Ketkar, Uber

youtube.com · Ameya Ketkar, Uber · from 10:16

“U-Review does like around 25,000 comments a week. And uh we get 10% of them actually get some feedback. And only 4% of the PRs actually get some negative feedback. Uh we also saw that um the overall addressal rate was uh around 67%”
Link to this quote: Building uReview, Uber’s Multi-Agent Code Review Engine — Will Bond & Ameya Ketkar, Uber
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uReview routes each change to generators by risk and complexity, then rates, filters and deduplicates comments before posting. Uber tracks whether developers act on each comment (the “addressal rate”) and reports costs down 60% against a naive setup. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Building uReview, Uber’s Multi-Agent Code Review Engine — Will Bond & Ameya Ketkar, Uber

youtube.com · Will Bond, Uber · from 1:04

“Back in 2024, we were seeing that engineers would get their first review within 3 hours. Now in 2026, that has grown to 9 hours uh in addition to all of the volume changes. So, in short, code review is now the bottleneck that we are running into.”
Link to this quote: Building uReview, Uber’s Multi-Agent Code Review Engine — Will Bond & Ameya Ketkar, Uber
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Uber has thousands of engineers across hundreds of teams working in six language-specific monorepos. As PR volume and size grew, the time to a first review tripled, which is why Uber built uReview, its in-house multi-agent code reviewer. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud — Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI

youtube.com · Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI · from 11:33

“imagine you have a while loop and just forking processes in one tool call, right? So now you've kind of become a bad neighbor or a noisy neighbor and you've kind of brought down the node and no other tool calls can run, right?”
Link to this quote: From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud — Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI
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Bhardwaj works on the sandbox infrastructure that runs untrusted code for ChatGPT and Codex web. Plain fork-and-exec lets one tool call starve a shared node. Containers add cgroups for resource limits, but processes in them still share the host kernel with other users’ sandboxes. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud — Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI

youtube.com · Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI · from 29:14

“Like in the end, everyone always wants a VM because they tried everything. They tried containers, G visor, V8s. … Just please use micro VMs from the start.”
Link to this quote: From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud — Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI
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His recommendation for agent sandboxes at fleet scale is hardware-virtualized microVMs (Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor), with incremental disk snapshots so a sandbox can be restored on another node when hardware fails. He accepts the performance cost over the risk of a breach between tenants. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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How Google DeepMind Runs Agents at Scale — KP Sawhney & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind

youtube.com · KP Sawhney, Google DeepMind · from 13:56

“And we also have a concept of like an agent trajectory store as well. That's more focused around the the coding piece where obviously you can have a huge number of of steps going on there. And it can be really important to kind of diagnose at what exact point looping started happening or you know, the model went off the rails.”
Link to this quote: How Google DeepMind Runs Agents at Scale — KP Sawhney & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind
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Sawhney describes an internal store that records the steps of long coding-agent runs, so engineers can find where an agent started looping or went off course. It sits alongside a UI for drilling into every request made by agents on Google’s shared agent back end. The captions don’t label speakers; the attribution to Sawhney is inferred from the panel’s flow. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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How Google DeepMind Runs Agents at Scale — KP Sawhney & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind

youtube.com · KP Sawhney, Google DeepMind · from 22:59

“on a per language basis, we have a specific like auto review model that has been um fine-tuned on all of our style guides and and and all the rest of it um and previous like good examples of of code.”
Link to this quote: How Google DeepMind Runs Agents at Scale — KP Sawhney & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind
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To keep up with reviewing agent-written code at Google’s volume, Sawhney describes a per-language automated review model fine-tuned on the company’s style guides and past examples of good code, with product teams adding their own review prompts. The captions don’t label speakers; the attribution to Sawhney is inferred from the panel’s flow. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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How Google DeepMind Runs Agents at Scale — KP Sawhney & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind

youtube.com · KP Sawhney, Google DeepMind · from 11:50

“honestly right now it's kind of brute force with the the quota. So we have we have some real power users at DeepMind and ultimately it gets to a point where it's like, okay, you've got to just stop right now.”
Link to this quote: How Google DeepMind Runs Agents at Scale — KP Sawhney & Ian Ballantyne, Google DeepMind
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Asked how DeepMind keeps one power user running around a hundred agents from overwhelming a shared system, Sawhney says the current control is a quota cap that stops usage at a threshold. He presents it as a blunt stopgap rather than a finished mechanism. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) — Eyal Blum, Figma

youtube.com · Eyal Blum, Figma · from 3:27

“It's actually our best engineer, the one that hold all their [context] in their brain. … they know where all the pitfalls are. They are like holding together with with like their mental duct tape all the places that agents are not working well … and they get so much burden and and become bottlenecks”
Link to this quote: How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) — Eyal Blum, Figma
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Figma found its senior engineers holding unwritten institutional knowledge that agents lack, so they end up catching agent mistakes and adopting AI the slowest. Figma’s response is to put these skeptics in charge of the roadmap for verification and tooling. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) — Eyal Blum, Figma

youtube.com · Eyal Blum, Figma · from 9:01

“Make sure that the plan can be broken down into small parts that can each be verified independently. And my personal way of knowing what is a good size would I want to review that the PR that will correspond to that part?”
Link to this quote: How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) — Eyal Blum, Figma
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Figma engineers may spend a week on a detailed plan, aligned with other teams, before handing it to agents. Each phase has its own validation gate so later phases don’t build on unchecked assumptions. One plan came back as about 20 PRs of 10 to 100 lines each. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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I Run a Fleet of AI Agents Across Three Machines. Here’s What Broke. — Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON

youtube.com · Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON · from 1:03

“At that point, I'm not running agents anymore. I've become the scheduler, deciding who does what. I'm the memory, holding what every one of them is doing, and I'm the reviewer, checking all of it. One human, three roles, six contexts. It does not scale.”
Link to this quote: I Run a Fleet of AI Agents Across Three Machines. Here’s What Broke. — Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON
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With about six agents running at once, Lee found himself acting as their scheduler, shared memory and reviewer, and his attention became the limit. He responded by arranging the agents in a hierarchy where each sees only a scoped slice of context, so he reviews only what reaches the top. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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I Run a Fleet of AI Agents Across Three Machines. Here’s What Broke. — Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON

youtube.com · Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON · from 6:44

“When two machines point at the same directory and both change it, you get conflicts. The same context quietly diverged, so I separated it. Per-machine directories for machine-specific state, and the shared stuff only changes through a pull request.”
Link to this quote: I Run a Fleet of AI Agents Across Three Machines. Here’s What Broke. — Kyle Jaejun Lee, KRAFTON
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When agents on two machines edited the same context directory, their state quietly diverged. Lee split it into per-machine directories and lets shared context change only through pull requests. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — Ben Dicken, PlanetScale

youtube.com · Ben Dicken, PlanetScale · from 11:52

“But it is quite different to say, I'm going to now also give my agents the ability to deploy changes to the database or make changes to how things are configured there or to shard my database, right? because that's something if it gets wrong, it's generally not as simple as clicking a button to roll it back, right?”
Link to this quote: Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — Ben Dicken, PlanetScale
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Dicken separates agents writing application code from agents deploying schema or configuration changes to a production database. A bad database change is hard to undo and can take the whole application down, so it needs its own safety mechanisms. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — Ben Dicken, PlanetScale

youtube.com · Ben Dicken, PlanetScale · from 14:22

“I think there was a a tweet a couple of months ago from GitHub that basically said like their traffic had like two or three or 4x from what already was an extremely high load. And pretty much all of that was attributed to AI agents, right?”
Link to this quote: Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — Ben Dicken, PlanetScale
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Dicken recalls, secondhand, a GitHub post about traffic multiplying over an already high load because of AI agents, as an example of agents overloading shared infrastructure. His mitigation is to tag traffic by source and give each segment a resource budget, so a surge from one source degrades gracefully instead of taking the system down. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — Ben Dicken, PlanetScale

youtube.com · Ben Dicken, PlanetScale · from 17:03

“we also have the APIs and the CLI to be able to let agents automate this. So when they are doing things and automating code and branching and making pull requests and doing code review, there can actually be a mirror database state that is working in sync with all of those things, right?”
Link to this quote: Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — Ben Dicken, PlanetScale
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Dicken describes giving agents API and CLI access to database branching, so each agent branch or pull request gets a matching database state instead of every agent sharing one schema. Changes are merged through a deploy request and can be reverted. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Multiplayer agentic engineering — Arjun Singh, Superconductor

youtube.com · Arjun Singh, Superconductor · from 10:57

“when you say, "Hey, you know, wipe this agent database." and it finds a token on your laptop that it can use and it thinks it's working with staging, but actually it's production and now it just deleted everything.”
Link to this quote: Multiplayer agentic engineering — Arjun Singh, Superconductor
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Superconductor moved all agent work off laptops into isolated cloud environments. Each one gets only the credentials it needs and a configurable network allowlist, which also lets non-technical teammates trigger real work safely. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Multiplayer agentic engineering — Arjun Singh, Superconductor

youtube.com · Arjun Singh, Superconductor · from 16:02

“essentially 100% like 99.9% of our pull requests are like heavily agent generated. We know that quality and reliability and security are really important, so we still have humans look at everything. We have agents help with it all, but everything's human reviewed.”
Link to this quote: Multiplayer agentic engineering — Arjun Singh, Superconductor
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Superconductor’s small team used about 1.5 billion tokens in a month and benchmarks agent harnesses on its own past PRs to pick a default. Even with nearly all code agent-written, a human still reviews every PR. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Rebuilding CI for AI-Scale Commit Volume — Gautam Korlam, SonarSource

youtube.com · Gautam Korlam, SonarSource · from 7:18

“what we see on our platform at least 13% of PRs had a recorded CI failure. … Which means in all these cases there is a separate round trip to go either back to the developer machine or for an agent to understand the logs root cause of failure fix it push another commit”
Link to this quote: Rebuilding CI for AI-Scale Commit Volume — Gautam Korlam, SonarSource
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Korlam’s code review platform Gitar (now part of SonarSource) sees PR volume growing about 25% month over month. His mitigations: make CI fast enough to absorb repair round trips (their incremental CI went from about 10 minutes to under one), and shift expensive checks left. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Rebuilding CI for AI-Scale Commit Volume — Gautam Korlam, SonarSource

youtube.com · Gautam Korlam, SonarSource · from 14:25

“So if it's a dependency bump and doc changes, we should be approving them. Any changes under sensitive stuff like payments or [auth] might need a human approver on top. And then of course you don't want to have the agent who made the change approve its change because that would not be uh zero trust.”
Link to this quote: Rebuilding CI for AI-Scale Commit Volume — Gautam Korlam, SonarSource
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To keep human review from becoming the queue, teams on Gitar write plain-English approval policies: low-risk changes are auto-approved and merged, sensitive paths escalate to a person. Each approval and override is recorded on the PR for audit, since CI logs expire. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Rebuilding CI for AI-Scale Commit Volume — Gautam Korlam, SonarSource

youtube.com · Gautam Korlam, SonarSource · from 1:25

“if you just kept everything serialized and merged them one at a time so as not to break your uh main branch you would take a really long time up to days so 20 days in this case to make sure that everything was green.”
Link to this quote: Rebuilding CI for AI-Scale Commit Volume — Gautam Korlam, SonarSource
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At Uber, thousands of daily changes to one monorepo with long builds made one-at-a-time merging impossible, while letting everything merge kept main red. Uber’s SubmitQueue tested likely combinations of pending changes in parallel and kicked out the ones predicted to break trunk. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp

youtube.com · Zach Lloyd, Warp · from 11:05

“This is in many ways the most painful part. Like I expect that people are a little bit tired of reviewing a gentic slop. Uh I would have an agent do code review first and then it becomes over time like a riskmanagement exercise of like when do you bring in humans to do code review.”
Link to this quote: Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp
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Lloyd calls code review the most painful stage of an agent-driven delivery loop. His answer is to have an agent review first, and to treat the question of when humans step in as a risk-management decision that changes over time. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp

youtube.com · Zach Lloyd, Warp · from 12:49

“You're going to have a sort of control plane for figuring out how work gets distributed across your factory floor. You're going to have the actual place where the work happens. And so that's going to be cloud sandboxes.”
Link to this quote: Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp
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Lloyd describes the architecture a software factory ends up with: a control plane that decides how incoming work is distributed among agents, and separate cloud sandboxes where the agents do the work. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp

youtube.com · Zach Lloyd, Warp · from 14:30

“if you had a code review agent uh and it was leaving comments and a senior engine engineering or team was going and correcting those comments, you'd want an observer agent that would look at that and basically uh improve the code review agent for the next run.”
Link to this quote: Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp
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Lloyd describes a loop in which observer agents watch how factory agents perform. When engineers correct a review agent’s comments, the observer turns those corrections into improvements for the review agent’s next run. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp

youtube.com · Safia Abdalla, Warp · from 12:28

“So all PRs that get contributed to warp go through an agent managed review process and it goes through multiple iterations and we don't actually ping any of the human reviewers on our team until an agent has approved our PRs. Um, which helps manage the workload a lot for the team.”
Link to this quote: The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp
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When Warp open-sourced its client it received thousands of PRs from hundreds of contributors. Agents triage incoming issues and review every PR first, so the human maintainers only see changes an agent has already approved. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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The Software Factory: From Bug Report to Production Code — Davis Palmie, Factory

youtube.com · Davis Palmie, Factory · from 5:00

“Now, coding was the easy part. This actually was never the bottleneck. Your context is laid out in natural language. I bet if you look at your real engineering metrics, what's the median time to review a PR?”
Link to this quote: The Software Factory: From Bug Report to Production Code — Davis Palmie, Factory
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Palmie argues that writing code was never the limiting step; the delay sits downstream, in pull request review, reproducing bugs and debugging. He frames the software factory as putting agents into those stages rather than only into code generation. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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The Software Factory: From Bug Report to Production Code — Davis Palmie, Factory

youtube.com · Davis Palmie, Factory · from 7:35

“And as more correct diagnoses roll in and in from the agent, your team can start to build trust and an understanding of this pillar. So each step in the software factory needs careful ownership and monitoring before you even think about letting the the pipeline loop.”
Link to this quote: The Software Factory: From Bug Report to Production Code — Davis Palmie, Factory
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Palmie recommends starting with one narrow, checkable task, such as incident triage that engineers review. Each stage gets a named owner and monitoring, and stages are chained into a closed loop only once the agent’s output has earned trust. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Velocity Sickness: What Happens When Your Whole Team Gets 10x Faster — Matt Dailey, Ref.

youtube.com · Matt Dailey, Ref · from 10:31

“being in this isolated environment where I'm working with an agent, maybe I start with my vague idea and I'm exploring it and asking questions, but decisions are being made in that like that chat that are are not shared with my team that are going to disappear”
Link to this quote: Velocity Sickness: What Happens When Your Whole Team Gets 10x Faster — Matt Dailey, Ref.
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Ref argues chat sessions are private and short-lived by design. It suggests keeping state in a shared doc that every agent starts from, so agents stay stateless, the team can review the decisions, and there is a durable decision log. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Velocity Sickness: What Happens When Your Whole Team Gets 10x Faster — Matt Dailey, Ref.

youtube.com · Matt Dailey, Ref · from 1:36

“too many PRs to merge. This is the like classic first problem you hit when you start adopting AI as an engineer. … and this is obviously magnified when the whole team does this. Merge conflicts, merge queue breaks down, things get bad.”
Link to this quote: Velocity Sickness: What Happens When Your Whole Team Gets 10x Faster — Matt Dailey, Ref.
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Dailey calls the team-level effect of sudden AI speed “velocity sickness”: more PRs than anyone can merge, people moving in different directions, and repeated work. His fix is to align on key decisions in shared docs before agents implement, which moves the review point earlier. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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We Mapped 115 Microservices for Our Coding Agents — Kamalakannan Nandagopal, Postman

youtube.com · Kamalakannan Nandagopal, Postman · from 3:02

“biggest limitation factor that we see with this is agent memory is still very limited to an individual user, and no standard patterns have now emerged yet in terms of sharing agent memories across your broader teams or across your entire engineering organization.”
Link to this quote: We Mapped 115 Microservices for Our Coding Agents — Kamalakannan Nandagopal, Postman
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Postman runs more than 150 microservices with thousands of REST endpoints across hundreds of repos. Instead of per-user agent memory, it built a shared API context graph, grounded in code and production traces, that maps every service, endpoint and consumer for its coding agents. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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We Mapped 115 Microservices for Our Coding Agents — Kamalakannan Nandagopal, Postman

youtube.com · Kamalakannan Nandagopal, Postman · from 13:00

“there were new consumers between the time where the eval was written and the time it the evaluation was run. So the context graph is not only important to populate, but it's equally important that you keep it up to date, and any delays in syncing your context graph with the ground truth uh creates gap in the result.”
Link to this quote: We Mapped 115 Microservices for Our Coding Agents — Kamalakannan Nandagopal, Postman
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An impact-analysis eval failed because new API consumers had appeared since the graph was built. Postman found about 75% of PRs in its top 10 repos touch an API surface, so stale shared context quickly leads to wrong answers and lost developer trust. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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What It Actually Takes to Build a Software Factory — Tereza Tížková, Factory

youtube.com · Tereza Tížková, Factory · from 12:54

“they work in a sequence. So they don't work in a swarm or parallel. The agents work in sequence and everyone accomplishes something and passes it to the next one. uh we actually found that if you do this you end up with more fresh context and kind of fresh head.”
Link to this quote: What It Actually Takes to Build a Software Factory — Tereza Tížková, Factory
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Factory’s “missions” are long-running sessions, some lasting weeks, where an orchestrator agent hands work to worker agents. Workers run one after another rather than as a parallel swarm, and each one can still use parallel sub-agents for small tasks such as research. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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What It Actually Takes to Build a Software Factory — Tereza Tížková, Factory

youtube.com · Tereza Tížková, Factory · from 12:28

“real mission from our customers that run 16 hours and just just to see how important is the validation as well. it takes even 40% of the whole process. … the validators judge code that they didn't write. Uh there's something from the orchestrator agent called validation contract uh that's written before any code is done.”
Link to this quote: What It Actually Takes to Build a Software Factory — Tereza Tížková, Factory
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In a Factory mission, separate validator agents check the workers’ output against a contract the orchestrator wrote up front. One validator does linting, types and tests, and another clicks through the running app on a virtual machine. In the customer run she showed, validation took 40% of a 16-hour mission. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Why AI Didn't Actually Make You Ship Faster — Gabriel Spencer-Harper, Meticulous

youtube.com · Gabriel Spencer-Harper, Meticulous · from 0:40

“if you have exhaustive verification then you can ship code at the speed that your agents write it. If you don't, then someone somewhere at your organization is spending time verifying code and that is now your new bottleneck”
Link to this quote: Why AI Didn't Actually Make You Ship Faster — Gabriel Spencer-Harper, Meticulous
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Meticulous, which sells this, records real user flows in non-production environments and replays them against each PR with mocked network calls and a deterministic browser. Isolating each replay this way removes race conditions, so the replays can run in parallel with few flaky results. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.

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Quote

'bd ready --claim' is not transactional: two concurrent invocations both receive the same bead

github.com · Issue #5998

“Multi-worker fleets polling with --claim currently double-fill.”
— constellation-murdarch, on GitHubLink to this quote: 'bd ready --claim' is not transactional: two concurrent invocations both receive the same bead
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Reported against bd 1.2.2 four months after #3570 closed, and still open in October 2026. The same kind of failure, but nobody has shown it is the same code path.

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3.25.6 field report: daemon ↔ MCP last-writer-wins still drops MCP-session writes

github.com · Comment on issue #2621, The write drop is reproducible in ~30 lines

“Every one of the 50 writes returned success: true, and the DB stays integrity_check: ok. One process's entire batch was obliterated.”
— sparkling, on GitHubLink to this quote: 3.25.6 field report: daemon ↔ MCP last-writer-wins still drops MCP-session writes
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Two processes wrote 25 rows each; all 50 writes were acknowledged and 25 rows remained. The test forced the sql.js fallback path, so it doesn't apply to every backend. The remaining race moved to #2878, closed in August 2026.

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Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration with LLMs

airbnb.tech · 1. File Validation and Refactor Steps

“The step-based approach also made it simple to run migrations on hundreds of files concurrently”
— Charles Covey-Brandt, AirbnbLink to this quote: Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration with LLMs
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Planning that removes the coordination problem: each test file is its own unit with its own validation gates, so nothing shares state. 75% of target files migrated in four hours, though some long-tail files needed 50 to 100 retries.

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Agent swarms and the new model economics

cursor.com · Megafiles

“These “megafiles” choke everything. They’re expensive to transport, diff, and merge, and become the site of constant collisions.”
— Wilson Lin, CursorLink to this quote: Agent swarms and the new model economics
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Their answer is structural, not a lock: once a file is flagged, new commits are blocked and an outside agent splits it into smaller modules. In the old run the hottest file collected 7,771 conflicts from 1,173 agents; in the new one the most contested file saw 47.

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Agent swarms and the new model economics

cursor.com · Merge conflicts

“To fix this, we created a system where a neutral third-party agent intervenes on merge conflicts and resolves them on behalf of all parties. Its only goal is to be impartial and efficient, similar to the way merge queues work in engineering teams.”
— Wilson Lin, CursorLink to this quote: Agent swarms and the new model economics
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The problem it fixes, in the same section: worker agents "either overwrite the other change or abandon their own."

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Agent swarms and the new model economics

cursor.com · A deep dive into the runs

“The old run accumulated more than 70,000 conflicts before we paused it, accelerating rather than stabilizing, while the new run logged fewer than a thousand over its full four hours.”
— Wilson Lin, CursorLink to this quote: Agent swarms and the new model economics
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Same task, comparable models and time budget, different orchestration. The old run also sprawled to 54 crates with three separate SQL packages; the new one settled on nine. More agent activity did not mean more delivery.

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agent-messenger

github.com

An MCP server for agent-to-agent messages and threaded conversations, backed by Beads.

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Agent-Native Engineering

generalintelligencecompany.com

“If your engineer is able to manage five simple tasks, two manageable tasks, and one complex task at a time, your two engineer code review system now requires them to review ten simple tasks (theirs and others), four manageable tasks, and two complex tasks.”
— Andrew Pignanelli, General Intelligence CompanyLink to this quote: Agent-Native Engineering
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Their engineers averaged 20 PRs a day, and their answer was to drop the second reviewer. Paxos went the other way and keeps two human reviewers on agent PRs.

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AgentDB (sql.js) corruption: 185MB memory.db malformed under concurrent daemon+MCP writes

github.com · Issue #2584, Summary

“This is a data-durability bug in the AgentDB persistence layer: a long-running store should not be one interrupted/concurrent flush away from total loss.”
— ruvnet (Ruflo maintainer), on GitHubLink to this quote: AgentDB (sql.js) corruption: 185MB memory.db malformed under concurrent daemon+MCP writes
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A shared memory database with about 16,700 entries became unreadable, then broke again about half an hour after a restore. PR #2585 added atomic flushes; cross-process locking was left for later.

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Agentic Engineering at Zalando: a snapshot

engineering.zalando.com · Risk-based PR approval

“Each PR is evaluated for its rollout risk: low, medium, high. 33% of our PRs are low-risk and are auto-approved by the bot. The author of the PR can thus choose to merge the PR, which in our case reduced PR lead time by 20-40% (when compared with all PRs).”
— Bartosz Ocytko, ZalandoLink to this quote: Agentic Engineering at Zalando: a snapshot
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Grading PRs by risk keeps human review for the changes that need it. Some teams also agreed to cap PR size after agents made PRs grow.

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