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Engineering insights, guides, and best practices from the Mergestorm team. Topics include AI code review, merge conflict resolution, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity.

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·Mergestorm Team

How to build a free website with AI (and keep the code)

Build a free website with AI in one message. Breeze writes the copy and design, puts the site online at a free preview link, saves it as a private GitHub repository you own, and makes every later change a reviewed pull request. A step-by-step guide.

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·Updated ·Mergestorm Team

Surge public beta: on-demand CI runners that scale to zero

Surge runs your GitHub Actions jobs on shared cloud servers that start when CI needs them and shut down when it goes quiet. Each job gets its own fresh sandbox and you pay only for the minutes it runs. Minutes are included with Scale, Pro and Maelstrom plans. Here is how it works and how to set it up.

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·Mergestorm Team

Mergestorm’s review fleet moves to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Vortex, Work chat, and classify now run DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. What changed on the review fleet, and what a review costs.

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A three-layer stack: live bottom, seam, and parked upper PRs on a freeze branch

·Mergestorm Team

Why upper stack PRs sit on a parking branch

Mergestorm parks PR3+ on an immutable freeze so only the live seam restacks and re-reviews when the bottom moves. GitHub pointing at mg-park-*-gN is the model, not a missed rebase.

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One reviewer becoming a fleet of specialists that converge into a single review

·Updated ·Mergestorm Team

Vortex V2: From One Fast Reviewer to a Fleet That Converges

Vortex V2 is the evolution of that first cheap Core pass: specialist lanes assembled on the first review, a synthesis pass that consolidates without inventing findings, and a governance auditor that shows up when a PR will not settle.

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Review credits redesigned after DeepSeek's price change

·Updated ·Mergestorm Team

DeepSeek Raised Prices. We Redesigned Review Credits.

DeepSeek changed API pricing. Mergestorm runs Vortex and Cyclone on that stack, so we redesigned monthly review credits. Existing paid subscribers keep their current allotment. New plans: Starter 70, Scale 400, Pro 900, Maelstrom 2000.

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