I keep abandoning multi-agent setups because I can't verify the code they ship. How are you handling this?
Summary
A developer shares their frustration with multi-agent coding setups where verifying the output of parallel PRs is impractical, and describes building an AI QA agent that uses a real browser (via Browserbase) to automatically click through preview deploys and fail PRs that don't work as expected.
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