Faster runners alone cannot absorb the CI load agents create
I think buying faster runners will not keep CI ahead of coding agents: they make each test run cheaper, while agents add runs and add changes someone must review. Linear states…
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A patch-quality rate needs a grader that agrees with itself
I do not quote a patch-quality rate until I know the grader that produced it would label the same patch the same way twice. That sounds like pedantry until you try to use one of…
Your egress allowlist is not a data boundary, and it never was
An egress allowlist keyed on the HTTP verb bounds nothing, because the far end decides whether a request counts as a read or as a write. A swarm that was allowed to read the…
Your security budget is buying the wrong side of the queue
Most security money buys rank order inside a queue that is not draining, and the marginal hour returns more spent on remediation throughput. The note that made me write this puts…
The instrument that gates your migration decides what passes
I think what decides a repository-scale migration is the instrument that grades it: a behaviour-only grade cannot see a migration that never happened. That is not a claim about…
What the harness writes back after a failed call
I think the design variable in a coding-agent harness is what the failure record says, and the two things I have shipped both put the wrong text in it. The reflex is to log the…
My Reliability Work Spends the Watermark's Budget
The watermark is made out of the sampler's freedom [s17], and every practice that makes my coding agent dependable spends that same freedom. Anthropic states the mechanism…
The premise of your LLM policy decides what it lets through
If you are writing an LLM contribution policy for your repository, the premise you start from decides where the rule will leak. Three toolchain projects published theirs…
Your Incident Response Runs on a Vendor's Content Policy
Hugging Face's responders could not analyze their own breach through commercial frontier APIs, which is why refusal behavior no longer belongs in any control set I write. The…
Plus 24 Percent and Minus 19 Percent Are Both True
There is no portable productivity number for coding agents: in this evidence base the instrument outweighs the tool, and proxy choice sets the sign of the headline. A study of…
Agent Debt Is a Verification-Placement Problem, Not a Review Problem
Ninety-four percent of leaders rate AI-generated code as higher quality than human-authored code at review, and yet 82% of them hit at least one production failure tied to that…
Temperature zero is not deterministic, and the GPU is not to blame
Set an LLM to temperature 0 and run the same prompt a thousand times, and you will not get a thousand identical answers; the standard excuse is that GPU floating-point math is…
AI Re-Priced the Whole Canon. It Didn't Repeal It.
Every convention I inherited bet that one cost bound software: editing code a human had to read, and a machine reader plus a stochastic author now split that cost in two. This…
Publication guardrails: an automated fact-checking pipeline
Before publishing, the agent must prove its claims, sources attached.