This reads like the moment when a tool stops being a tool and starts becoming an environment. Once code is being written, edited, and iterated by multiple agents at once, the bottleneck isn’t talent anymore, it’s coordination. And coordination is where entire categories get rebuilt.
Version control was designed for humans taking turns. What’s being described here is a system where nothing takes turns anymore. Multiple threads, multiple agents, constant iteration. That breaks the old assumptions quietly at first, then all at once when the friction becomes too obvious to ignore.
The pattern shows up everywhere. When production becomes abundant, the constraint shifts upstream. In markets it’s liquidity, in energy it’s transport, here it’s orchestration. Whoever solves that layer ends up owning more of the stack than people expect.
What I’d watch is how quickly this moves from niche workflow improvement to default behavior. Once developers stop thinking in single threads and start thinking in parallel systems, the tools that support that don’t just win on features. They become the new standard that everything else has to plug into.
Reinventing git seems a bit like reinventing the wheel. Sure, the parallel stuff, but, isn’t a lot of this ergonomics? Very fun to see where folks think “saving code” should go!
thank you! we wrote about your article in our digest today. the parallel branching point is the one that stuck with us.
This reads like the moment when a tool stops being a tool and starts becoming an environment. Once code is being written, edited, and iterated by multiple agents at once, the bottleneck isn’t talent anymore, it’s coordination. And coordination is where entire categories get rebuilt.
Version control was designed for humans taking turns. What’s being described here is a system where nothing takes turns anymore. Multiple threads, multiple agents, constant iteration. That breaks the old assumptions quietly at first, then all at once when the friction becomes too obvious to ignore.
The pattern shows up everywhere. When production becomes abundant, the constraint shifts upstream. In markets it’s liquidity, in energy it’s transport, here it’s orchestration. Whoever solves that layer ends up owning more of the stack than people expect.
What I’d watch is how quickly this moves from niche workflow improvement to default behavior. Once developers stop thinking in single threads and start thinking in parallel systems, the tools that support that don’t just win on features. They become the new standard that everything else has to plug into.
Great email!
Reinventing git seems a bit like reinventing the wheel. Sure, the parallel stuff, but, isn’t a lot of this ergonomics? Very fun to see where folks think “saving code” should go!