Parallel AI Coding Agents Lack Fast, Isolated Database Environments
Developers running multiple AI coding agents in parallel worktrees need separate database instances to avoid migration conflicts, but local Docker copies overheat machines, cloud database branches take minutes to provision, and mocks cause agents to hallucinate against unrealistic behavior. This creates a gap for fast, ephemeral, production-like database environments per agent.
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