build1 distinct publisher
Agent-written PRs move the bottleneck to whoever still has to read them
The public software-factory writeups agree about the pipeline and disagree about who merges. That disagreement is the staffing question, because agents made code cheap to generate and left the cost of reading it alone.
Publishers:dev.to
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption71
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives72