--- title: Running Parallel Agents Without Gates Is Just Step 1 description: Running multiple AI coding agents in parallel without automated quality gates just shifts the bottleneck back to the developer, who ends up manually reviewing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/running-parallel-agents-without-gates-is-just-step-1-n54gkc7ca twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Running Parallel Agents Without Gates Is Just Step 1 | daily.dev og:description: Running multiple AI coding agents in parallel without automated quality gates just shifts the bottleneck back to the developer, who ends up manually reviewing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/running-parallel-agents-without-gates-is-just-step-1-n54gkc7ca og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/n54Gkc7Ca.png og:image:alt: Running Parallel Agents Without Gates Is Just Step 1 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Running Parallel Agents Without Gates Is Just Step 1 **[Dan Vega](https://daily.dev/sources/dan-vega)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Running multiple AI coding agents in parallel without automated quality gates just shifts the bottleneck back to the developer, who ends up manually reviewing and smoke testing every diff. The real progress comes from building strong automated gates so review doesn't depend on a single person's eyeballs on every change. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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