WHY WE BUILT OUR OWN BACKGROUND AGENT

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

Inspect is a custom background coding agent developed by Ramp that autonomously writes, verifies, and debugs code with the same context and tools a human engineer would use. The agent operates in fast, sandboxed VMs with full development environments, integrates with many existing tools, and supports interfaces like Slack, web, and Chrome extensions. Inspect was adopted quickly internally, writing approximately 30% of merged pull requests.