Re:What the Success of Coding Agents Teaches Us about AI Sys...
by jbmilgrom on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:21AM
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totally, it's like ai-native github with some linear plus some ability to push the ball forward autonomously. This doesn't exist yet so we had to build a version internally, but also we built it pretty specifically for our needs. The general version might have to be more componentized, not sure. We also as an industry probably need some version control protocol above git that includes all the history around the commit so we don't have to string together root cause documents and conversation history in s3 linked via relational entities in psql.
In most cases it might not be much more valuable than just looking through the diffs from scratch with a new agent, but there are probably going to be some cases where a rehydrated agent is like "Doh, I meant to do X but it looks like I hallucinated Y instead. Here's a PR to fix it!"
I know that's just a small piece of what you're doing, but I think it's something that would be valuable on its own, and soon something that is likely to be "standard infrastructure" for any company that does even a little agentic coding (assuming it works). It'd probably even be "required infrastructure" in regulated industries; the fact that all these agent contexts are ephemeral has to be a red flag from a regulatory perspective.