Stephan Hagemann·Oct 3, 2026 Let the agents push to main
Coding agents are clearly trained on the last 15 years of software development. You can tell because they are scared of main.
Ask one to make a change and it reaches for a branch and a pull request. Pull-request-based development won, trunk-based development lost, and the agents learned the lesson: committing straight to main is not safe.
Anecdotally, I think it’s exactly what they should be doing, as much as they can.continuous integration·ai
