Why a coding agent can fix one failure and bring back another, how to record each attempt, when to stop patching and investigate one hypothesis, and what to leave so the loop does not return.
Parallel agents overlap their run time, not your prompting, questions, review and merging. Sort tasks by independence, size sessions to your review capacity, and compare serial and parallel batches on end-to-end time and rework.
Freeze the unfinished diff in a commit, record which checks passed, failed or never ran, and label every other claim as observed, inferred or decided, so the receiving agent re-checks what it inherits and errors can be traced to the…
Give each agent its own worktree and branch, separate the ports, databases and containers a worktree still shares, agree file ownership and merge order up front, and test the combined result.
Where the line between an agent's assistance and the authority to ship belongs, which changes need an independent human approval, and how branch rules, credentials and deployment gates enforce it when instructions fail.
Write the pull request for a reader who was not in the chat: problem, boundaries, decisions, assumptions, evidence tied to the diff, open concerns and ownership, then have an uninvolved reviewer rerun the critical check.
Sort each review question by what it needs to know: let checks and AI reviewers cover what the diff shows, and keep intent, product consequences, architecture fit, risk acceptance and the merge with a named approver.
Sort a huge AI-generated diff by purpose, rebuild it as a stack of pull requests where every commit builds and passes its tests, check the top differs from the original only where intended, and give each reviewer one layer plus…
Find out whether pull requests are waiting or slow to read, make authors finish the evidence before review, cap open changes and size them small, and judge the result by speed and stability together.
Reproduce each intermittent failure under recorded conditions, give quarantined tests an owner and a list of what they block, tell agents to report and stop instead of retrying, and close an entry only when the same reproduction no longer fails.
