Towards Self-Driving Codebases
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Detail proposes moving more software engineering work to agents, but says prior deployments produced mostly low-quality code instead of large-scale improvements. It argues the biggest blocker is not models but agent-legible development environments, where lack of end-to-end testing limits trust in agent fixes. It recommends a bug-driven approach to build an agent-ready “dev stack” with primitives like global memory and codebase rot prevention so handoffs can grow over time.