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Re: Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

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rs545837 wrote: post #15
deckar01 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this actually matter for multi-agent use cases? Surely people that are using swarms of AI agents to write code are just letting them resolve merge conflicts.

So that you don't feel that I am biased about my thing but just giving more context that it's not just me, its actually people saying on twitter how often the merging breaks when you are running production level code and often merging different branches. https://x.com/agent_wrapper/status/2026937132649247118 https://x.com/omega_memory/status/2028844143867228241 https://x.com/vincentmvdm/status/2027027874134343717

Those users all work for companies that sell AI tools. And the first one literally says they let AI fix merge conflicts. The second one is in a thread advocating for 0 code review (which this can’t guarantee) (and also ew). The third is also saying to just have another bot handle merging.

Re: Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

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Post by rs545837 »

deckar01 wrote: post #21
rs545837 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So that you don't feel that I am biased about my thing but just giving more context that it's not just me, its actually people saying on twitter how often the merging breaks when you are running production level code and often merging different branches. https://x.com/agent_wrapper/status/2026937132649247118 https://x.com/omega_memory/status/2028844143867228241 https://x.com/vincentmvdm/status/2027027874134343717

Those users all work for companies that sell AI tools. And the first one literally says they let AI fix merge conflicts. The second one is in a thread advocating for 0 code review (which this can’t guarantee) (and also ew). The third is also saying to just have another bot handle merging.

Thanks a lot for the fair criticism, Appreciate it! You're right that those links aren't the strongest evidence. The real argument isn't "people are complaining on twitter." It's just much simpler when two agents add different functions to the same file, where git creates a conflict that doesn't need to exist. Weave just knows they're separate entities and merges cleanly. Whether you let AI resolve the false conflict or avoid it entirely is a design choice, we think avoiding it is better.

Re: Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

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Post by deckar01 »

rs545837 wrote: post #22
deckar01 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those users all work for companies that sell AI tools. And the first one literally says they let AI fix merge conflicts. The second one is in a thread advocating for 0 code review (which this can’t guarantee) (and also ew). The third is also saying to just have another bot handle merging.

Thanks a lot for the fair criticism, Appreciate it! You're right that those links aren't the strongest evidence. The real argument isn't "people are complaining on twitter." It's just much simpler when two agents add different functions to the same file, where git creates a conflict that doesn't need to exist. Weave just knows they're separate entities and merges cleanly. Whether you let AI resolve the false conflict…

Dear god, it’s bots all the way down.

Re: Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

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Post by rs545837 »

deckar01 wrote: post #24
rs545837 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks a lot for the fair criticism, Appreciate it! You're right that those links aren't the strongest evidence. The real argument isn't "people are complaining on twitter." It's just much simpler when two agents add different functions to the same file, where git creates a conflict that doesn't need to exist. Weave just knows they're separate entities and merges cleanly. Whether you let AI resolve the false conflict…

Dear god, it’s bots all the way down.

What do you mean?

Re: Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

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Post by deckar01 »

rs545837 wrote: post #25
deckar01 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dear god, it’s bots all the way down.

What do you mean?

It’s your GitHub profile. It looks suspiciously just like the other 10 GitHub users that have been spamming AI generated issues and PRs for the last 2 weeks. They always go quiet eventually. I suspect because they are violating GitHub’s ToS, but maybe they just run out of free tokens.

Re: Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities

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Post by rs545837 »

spacecrafter3d wrote: post #23

Awesome, I've been wanting this for a long time! Any chance of Swift being supported?

Swift isn't supported yet but adding a new language is straightforward since we use tree-sitter. There's already a tree-sitter-swift grammar. Would happily accept a PR for it, if you are down for it.
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