Re:Parallel AI agents are a game changer
by shiroyasha on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:07PM
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I agree, async does feel like a better description. I wish I used that term for the title.
Re:Parallel AI agents are a game changer
by CuriouslyC on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @08:33PM
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Nah, I saw this problem a while ago and already spec'd out the solution. First, agents need to be doing atomic commits, and second you can just have a massive merge queue with bisection, if you're using bazel you can handle ci gating on thousands of PRs with very little overhead, and when a merge batch fails you find the bad patch set in O(log(n)) time and dispatch to an agent for reconciliation. I even built a prototype, works great in benchmarks but I don't have a need for it over merge trains in gitlab yet.
(1) I feel like most people call these async agents, though maybe "parallel" is the term that will stick.
(2) Async is great for reasons other than concurrent execution.
(3) Concurrent execution is tricky, at least for tightly defined projects, because the PRs will step on each other, and (maybe this is just me) I would rather rewrite an entire project than try to pick through a complicated merge conflict.