Matt Rickard
Thoughts on engineering, startups, and AI.
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Pushing 4.7M Commits an Hour
The winning software teams will throw away orders of magnitude more code than they merge.
I ran a benchmark against the custom git server I’m building,
- 4.79 million pushes per hour to a single repository across 1,408 branches (p50, 32...
Rebuilding Cognition's Agentic MapReduce
How do you run large-scale agent tasks across a codebase? Today there’s three approaches.
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One thread. Compaction removes detail. Bad explorations poison future context. Simple and cache-efficient but slow.
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Manager thread, subagent...
Clone Is the New Bottleneck for Agents
Agents increasingly work in ephemeral sandboxes. AI app builders, code execution, parallel cloud agents — and none of them can do anything until the repo is present.
ComputeSDK measured the median time-to-interactivity (TTI) across the top...
Too Many Homers
Ὅμηρον ἐξ Ὁμήρου σαφηνίζειν.
“To clarify Homer from Homer.”
— Porphyry, Homeric Questions, c. 300 CE
Ptolemy III had a problem in the Library of Alexandria. There were too many Homers. He had ordered every book brought into the l...
Where Should Agent-Generated Code Live?
Every company is going to have agents. Every agent is going to write code.
Where should all the agent-generated code live?
Where are the commits coming from?
- AI app builders create a new repo for each project and push commits for eac...
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