📖 Read the full version with charts and embedded sources on AgentConn → At AI Engineer Europe last week, Hugo Santos (CEO, Namespace) and Madison Faulkner (NEA) stood in front of a room of platform engineers and said the quiet thing out loud: CI/CD is dead for agent-based systems . Traditional CI was built for humans pushing one or two diffs a week. When you scale to thousands of autonomous agents opening PRs continuously, the abstractions break — runner saturation, cold Docker builds on every branch, cost explosion, feedback latency that lets context decay before the agent sees the test result. They coined a new vocabulary for what replaces it: continuous compute and continuous computers, not continuous integration. The framing is sharp because the structural shift it points to is already happening — and the operational layer it implies is what every ops team running Claude Code Max, Cursor, or a private agent fleet is going to be invoiced for over the next two quarters. This piece does three things.…