I Thought I'd Lost the Plot. I Was Writing It.

I Thought I'd Lost the Plot. I Was Writing It.

I set out to build autonomous agents. I spent two years building the scaffolding instead. It turns out that was the job.

Two agents worked through the night last night while I slept. No steering, no babysitting, no 3am check-ins.

By the time I woke up they had merged eleven pull requests between them. One had spent nine hours building a feedback pipeline — capture review feedback, classify it into intents, score severity reliability, file quality signals as issues, run the whole cycle weekly on a cron — about 6,500 lines across nine PRs. The other had landed a fix whose commit subject I could not have written better myself:

fix(indexer): stop enrichment inheriting the interactive model and indexing itself