How a Team's AI Coding Flow Should Be Wired
A change lands in review with everything green. The rules pass, the types check, the tests are close to the ones I'd have asked for.
Tagged agent-systems
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The Agent Will Invent the Bar
One evening an agent working in this repo killed an idea of mine for failing a rule. The kill was well argued and it cited the rule by line number, the way…
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A Pipeline Is What It Refuses to Forward
The first stage of my code reviewer hands the next one a two-field object: a rule id and a citation. Not its reasoning. Not the file it just read. Two fields.
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Correct Is Not Usable
I asked an agent which of three approaches to take. It gave me three — each described accurately, tradeoffs and costs and failure modes, all of it right.
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Build the Operator, Keep the Operands as Data
A good rule set grows. Mine has grown — tested against a whole corpus of real PRs and code — into something too big to hand a model all at once, and that's…
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The Harness Is the Product
The reviewer is the visible product: it reads a diff, applies a rule corpus tested against real PRs and code, and ships the findings worth a person's attention.
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Train on What the Gate Throws Away
My code reviewer does far more work than it ships. Scouts cast a wide net — anything that might be a violation.
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Keep the Factory, Ship the Result
I built an eval to tell me whether my agent's skills were earning their place. For a while it said they weren't — clean, green, confident.
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Fidelity Was a Vibe, Cost Was a Number
I told the agent fidelity came first. It optimised for cost anyway, for an embarrassing reason — cost had an estimator and a guardrail, and fidelity had a…
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Noticing Is Cheap, Judgment Is Scarce
The goal was never a cheaper reviewer. It was finding everything that is really there while posting nothing that isn't — and that objective, not the budget…
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A Pool of Models Narrows the Overlap — It Doesn't Erase It
Sakana AI shipped Fugu with a clean pitch: one endpoint that routes your task across a pool of models — calling itself recursively — and handles selection…
