A nightly agent works his backlog and, by design, never merges

A nightly coding agent works his backlog and never merges.

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How it works

A nightly coding agent works his backlog
And never merges

Why it’s worth knowing

Never merges is the wisest line in any agent brief.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on cloudwired.dev. See the original ↗

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