Merge Is the Bottleneck - Prasanna Sankar, Vorflux

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Prasanna Sankar explains how AI agents moving to longer tasks exposes coordination as the bottleneck. Covers six practical development problems: environment reproduction, planning investment, task dependencies, laptop-free testing, multi-angle reviews, and mergeable PR maintenance. Details controls for automation failure modes including budgets, visible work streams, named ownership, and responsibility escalation. Built from Vorflux experience with on-call, CI, and project management bots.