Infrastructure Cost Management in Agent-Driven Software Factories
Agents shift infrastructure bottlenecks downstream, where queues and idle capacity hide real costs.
Priya Venkataraman
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Agents shift infrastructure bottlenecks downstream, where queues and idle capacity hide real costs.
Agents need real-time production feedback to correct themselves, not dashboards.
Infrastructure built for human developers now bottlenecks when agents drive delivery at scale.
Monolithic DevOps platforms can't handle machine-speed software factories.
Pessimistic mode precomputes fallback states to dodge cascade failures when PRs conflict.
Merge queue performance now has measurable levers that most teams have never instrumented.
Agents writing code in parallel need merge queues built for machine-speed concurrency.
AI agents navigate codebases differently than humans, making repo structure a technical constraint.