Over the past 6 months we've maniacally prepped our repos to be coding agent friendly. Here are some things that worked.
1. Make CI blazing fast. Use every Rust, Zig, or Go ported tool that lets agents verify their work. This means UV, oxfmt, Typescript 7. Move integration tests to post merge hooks.
2. Trigger coding agents automatically based on triage labels. A coding agent should setup a proof of concept or repro steps automatically so an engineer can pick up the issue seamlessly.
3. Setup crons for things devs hate doing. Setup agents to fill SDK gaps, skill tuning, filling in critical regression checks.
4. Give agents ways to prove their work. Add screenshotting skills, agent-browswer, cloud storage for storing assets.
5. Make it possible to hermetically deploy your app, preferably multiple at a time. If a coding agent can deploy the app locally, the faster it can work.
6. Give the agents realistic production "simulation" data. Agents will work much better when they are working against data that looks like how your users use the product.
@nimanojoumi@pitdesi@SantoJLeo Agree on the use case for fintech. But announcing equity and debt together is potentially more misleading in this scenario.
@dohertyjf My cousin is a real estate agent in Hawaii who sells condos mostly to local families. That’s eliminated the only class of entry level ownership in towns where there are no single family homes less than $1M
@dohertyjf I don’t mean the insurance co of that name. Insurance rates across the country are going up. Folks in condos with HOAs don’t have the option of paying off or moving, and many won’t be able to afford the new payments. Catastrophic for many marginal folks.
@Altimor@DanielleFong The next step is for agents to understand the tools they use, and OpenAI says that’ll be out this year. I think that will hockey stick usefulness and adoption of agents.
@tomfgoodwin I get it and see this, but I also see a lot of hungry “on” people and teams that have energy and have thoughtfully taken the tools we were forced to use in COVID and made a new culture out of it. People are accelerating into this gap.