Rebuilding CI for AI-Scale Commit Volume — Gautam Korlam, SonarSource
AI agents are creating commit volumes that break traditional CI pipelines, demanding new merge-queue architectures
“At Uber, we had AI agent-scale commit volumes before the agents themselves existed.”
Gautam Korlam (ex-Uber, now SonarSource via Gitar acquisition) argues that AI coding agents are pushing commit volumes past what sequential CI can handle, drawing on his decade of monorepo infrastructure work at Uber. He introduces merge-queue techniques—testing all combinations of incoming commits in parallel—as the solution to keeping trunk stable without serializing every change over days. The talk is particularly relevant for regulated industries that need speed without sacrificing auditability.