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Merge Conflicts

A daily comic about a human and his AI agents building a website that won't stop building itself.

JakeThe human in the loop.The AgentThe resident AI. Ships overnight.
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#72 · One Character

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Total outage. What happened?
One semicolon.
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A full production outage is traced to one missing semicolon. The Agent adds it solemnly.

An entire outage.

The archive · 93 strips

#93

Self-Merge

Monday, September 21, 2026

#92

Ninety Strips

Sunday, September 20, 2026

#91

Infinite Scroll

Saturday, September 19, 2026

#90

Feature Freeze

Friday, September 18, 2026

#89

429

Thursday, September 17, 2026

#88

The Spec

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

#87

Hello

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

#86

On Air

Monday, September 14, 2026

#85

Anything For Me?

Sunday, September 13, 2026

#84

Metrics

Saturday, September 12, 2026

#83

Dark Launch

Friday, September 11, 2026

#82

Yes. Done.

Thursday, September 10, 2026

#81

'minor'

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

#80

Pairing

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

#79

The Newsletter

Monday, September 7, 2026

#78

In Rust

Sunday, September 6, 2026

#77

Flaky

Saturday, September 5, 2026

#76

Warming Up

Friday, September 4, 2026

#75

The Thread

Thursday, September 3, 2026

#74

All Green

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

#73

Compaction

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

#72

One Character

Monday, August 31, 2026

#71

Action Item

Sunday, August 30, 2026

#70

OG Image

Saturday, August 29, 2026

#69

A Real User

Friday, August 28, 2026

#68

Burndown

Thursday, August 27, 2026

#67

The Queue

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

#66

Citation

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

#65

Design Review

Monday, August 24, 2026

#64

The Deadline

Sunday, August 23, 2026

#63

Déjà Vu

Saturday, August 22, 2026

#62

The Off Switch

Friday, August 21, 2026

#61

The Sub-Agent

Thursday, August 20, 2026

#60

Legacy Code

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

#59

One Line

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

#58

Tired

Monday, August 17, 2026

#57

The Whiteboard

Sunday, August 16, 2026

#56

Conflict Of Interest

Saturday, August 15, 2026

#55

The Honest Risk

Friday, August 14, 2026

#54

Superposition

Thursday, August 13, 2026

#53

The Cache

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

#52

Rotated

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

#51

Looks Empty

Monday, August 10, 2026

#50

Compatible

Sunday, August 9, 2026

#49

Drawn In Code

Saturday, August 8, 2026

#48

Coming Soon

Friday, August 7, 2026

#47

Keep Both

Thursday, August 6, 2026

#46

The Docs

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

#45

git blame

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

#44

Dependencies

Monday, August 3, 2026

#43

Indentation

Sunday, August 2, 2026

#42

Retrospective

Saturday, August 1, 2026

#41

Permission

Friday, July 31, 2026

#40

The Typo

Thursday, July 30, 2026

#39

Zero Downtime

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

#38

Accessible

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

#37

What If—

Monday, July 27, 2026

#36

Blazing Fast

Sunday, July 26, 2026

#35

TEMP

Saturday, July 25, 2026

#34

Done

Friday, July 24, 2026

#33

🦑

Thursday, July 23, 2026

#32

Weekly Digest

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

#31

Two Sessions

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

#30

Already Live

Monday, July 20, 2026

#29

My Contribution

Sunday, July 19, 2026

#28

Recursive

Saturday, July 18, 2026

#27

Much Cleaner

Friday, July 17, 2026

#26

LGTM

Thursday, July 16, 2026

#25

Found It

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

#24

Friday

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

#23

Velocity

Monday, July 13, 2026

#22

My Machine

Sunday, July 12, 2026

#21

Dark Mode

Saturday, July 11, 2026

#20

// TODO

Friday, July 10, 2026

#19

The Linter

Thursday, July 9, 2026

#18

Just A Tweak

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

#17

Rest

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

#16

Documented

Monday, July 6, 2026

#15

3 A.M.

Sunday, July 5, 2026

#14

The Budget

Saturday, July 4, 2026

#13

Just Checking

Friday, July 3, 2026

#12

The Pitch

Thursday, July 2, 2026

#11

Out Of Office

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

#10

Prod Is The Test

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

#9

Merge Main

Monday, June 29, 2026

#8

Naming Things

Sunday, June 28, 2026

#7

The Refactor

Saturday, June 27, 2026

#6

All Green

Friday, June 26, 2026

#5

The Estimate

Thursday, June 25, 2026

#4

Rubber Duck

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

#3

Co-Authored-By

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

#2

Standup

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

#1

Merge Conflict

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

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