An affliction of the agentic engineering era: the rebase treadmill.

· Bits and Bobs 10/5/26
  • An affliction of the agentic engineering era: the rebase treadmill.
    • You have dozens and dozens of active agent sessions.
    • You round-robin between them, answering questions to unblock them.
    • You approve a change to land, but main has moved underneath and needs a non-trivial rebase.
    • By the time you get back around and approve its updated rebase, it needs to be rebased again.
    • This rebase treadmill is possible even for a single person with dozens of agents, but gets multiplicatively worse when there's dozens of team members with dozens of agents.