Julien Danjou • 6/30/2026

Merge Queues Were Built for Humans. Agents Don't Wait.

This article examines Mitchell Hashimoto's claim that merge queues break under AI agent-driven development, where pull request volume increases 10x to 1000x. The author, who sells merge queues, agrees naive serial queues fail but argues the real issue is contention at main, not the queue itself. They contend that removing the queue eliminates coordination, making the problem worse. Instead, they advocate for improving queue throughput rather than abandoning serialization. The piece is a technical debate on DevOps practices for modern CI/CD pipelines, relevant to software engineering and IT tooling.

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