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My agents write 20 PRs in an hour. Merging them takes all day.
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My agents write 20 PRs in an hour. Merging them takes all day.

DEV Community: github·Ahsan Ali·2 days ago
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I don't use a project management tool anymore. Just GitHub.

I set the direction, test the flows myself, and log every bug as an issue. Then I give one prompt to my lead agent: "go through all the bugs and fix them." It spins up a sub-agent per issue, each in its own worktree. Twenty issues in, and in under an hour I have twenty PRs pointing at my base branch.

That part feels like magic.

Then the merging starts

Merge three PRs and the fourth has conflicts. Fix those, and the sixth breaks. Features are worse than bugs, because they touch more files. Every merge waits on CI. The writing took an hour. The merging takes the rest of the day.

It's not just me

Anthropic shared that merges into their monorepo went from about 2,500 a day in May to over 30,000 in September. Their tooling couldn't keep up, so they built their own source control system, Scion. Their words: writing code isn't the bottleneck anymore.…

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