Length CI runs do reduce throughput, as working around high CI latencies pushes people towards juggling more PRs at once meaning more merge conflicts to deal with, and increases the cost of a build failing transiently.
And context switching isn't free by any means.
Still, if LLM agents keep improving then the bottleneck of waiting on code review won't exist for the agents themselves, there'll just be a stream of always-green branches waiting for someone to review and merge them. CI costs will still matter though.
And context switching isn't free by any means.
Still, if LLM agents keep improving then the bottleneck of waiting on code review won't exist for the agents themselves, there'll just be a stream of always-green branches waiting for someone to review and merge them. CI costs will still matter though.