News Summary

• Uber’s approach to modularity may have seemed extreme at the time, but it could become the new normal.
• For decades a small team with 5 or 10 people writing code at the same time didn’t even need to consider doing this.
• A small team today, running 20-100 agents in parallel, might generate 500 commits/200 pushes/100 PRs.
• 100+ coding agents running in parallel have to work well independently.
• If they spend all their time resolving merge conflicts, fixing broken builds, and creating deployment nightmares, you can end up with net-negative productivity.