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title: "Engineering: Cork blog · Cork"
description: "Notes from building Cork."
canonical: "https://corkcli.com/blog/c/engineering"
last_updated: "2026-09-18"
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# Engineering

Notes from building Cork.

- [The Merge Tax: Why Adding Coding Agents Is Making Teams Slower](https://corkcli.com/blog/the-merge-tax-why-adding-coding-agents-is-making-teams-slower): Agent authored pull requests conflict at roughly double the human rate, and the worst failures are the ones version control reports as clean. A look at the coordination gap in agentic development.

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