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

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 the actual bottleneck. Madison Faulkner and Hugo Santos (Namespace) lay out what replaces it: no PRs, just intent and plan fed into an agent loop with fast inline validation. Changes queue in a premerge layer where humans review intent-plus-outcome rather than diffs. The end state they're pointing toward is agents exploring multiple commits in parallel for the same plan, a multiverse where the tip of the repo is a moving target and the inner loop needs to be stateful and fast enough to keep up. Speaker info: - https://x.com/madsfaulkner - https://www.linkedin.com/in/madisonhfaulkner/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugomgsantos/