Comment by bob1029
8 days ago
> 84 / 154 commits (54.5%) were lock/claim/stale-lock/release coordination.
Parallelism over one code base is clearly not very useful.
I don't understand why going as fast as possible is the goal. We should be trying to be as correct as possible. The whole point is that these agents can run while we sleep. Convergence is non linear. You want every step to be in the right direction. Think of it more as a series of crystalline database transactions that must unroll in perfect order than a big pile of rocks that needs to be moved from a to b.
Orchestration and autonomy are the things people get hyped about, but validation is the real bottleneck, and I'm pretty sure it's not amenable to complete automation. The people pushing orchestration the hardest are trying to get their users to validate for them, which taints the AI related open source ecosystem for everyone (sorry Steve/Peter!).
I wrote a rant about this a while back to try and encourage people to be more responsible: https://sibylline.dev/articles/2026-01-27-stop-orchestrating...
I think we can now begin to experimentally test Conway's law and corollaries.
Agreed, a flat set of workers configured like this is probably not the best configuration.
Can you imagine what an all human team configured like this would produce?