TLDR · PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

ENGINEERING FOR AGENTS THAT NEVER SLEEP

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Most of the signals that trigger engineering work are already machine-readable. The current bottleneck is where a human reads that signal, interprets it, and then types a prompt telling the agent what the signal already said. Give agents comprehensive unit tests so they can verify their own output, good documentation to discover context, reproducible dev environments to run code, and rich system accounting. This scaffolding will enable agents that can close incidents around the clock.