Re:Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents...
by jaggederest on Saturday October 10, 2026 @10:08PM
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I had a similarly useful analogy of the legal system emerge, in a similar way. I think there's a great analogy between policy in the legal system and policy in software engineering, and they have some awfully good (and very, very historical) ways to think about e.g. amending, repealing, and adjudicating things based on those policies.
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Re:Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents...
by rafiss on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:07PM
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Funny, right now we have a super bare bones of something like that. When the Chief (a human) makes a decision that generalizes (for example, a project-wide best practice), it goes into a precedent log. Before an agent escalates something to the Chief, it has to check the log, and if a precedent applies it cites it and follows it instead of escalating. It’s been one of the ways to cut down escalation noise but it definitely could be more mature.