AI Engineer YouTube · May 13, 2026

CI/CD Is Dead, Agents Need Continuous Compute and Computers — Hugo Santos and Madison Faulkner

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Why it matters

Traditional CI/CD was built for humans pushing one or two diffs a week. Scale to thousands of autonomous agents opening PRs continuously and you get runner saturation, cold Docker builds on every branch, cache thrash, and a merge queue that starts behaving like a serialized database lock where time-to-commit becomes th

My takeaway: Traditional CI/CD was built for humans pushing one or two diffs a week. Scale to thousands of autonomous agents opening PRs continuously and you get runner saturation, cold Docker builds on every branch, cache thrash, and a merge queue that starts behaving like a serialized database lock where time-to-commit becomes th