The Self-healing Repo

A lifecycle of a production bug

The traditional way to detect, triage, fix, and deploy bugs involved humans at every step. But now that AI agents are faster better bug-fixers, do we need all those checkpoints? The cycle time for a bugfix is somewhere between a week and a day, with teams boasting next-day bugfixes as an accomplishment.

But if the bug has an obvious fix, can we just let an agent fix it?

3x less human

With this setup, without loss of quality, bugfixes can be shipped about 3x faster, sometimes as fast as minutes. Shipping bug-free code is impossible, but deploying self-fixing code is well within reach. It does require that telemetry be set up for unambiguous error reporting, however.

Auto-fix agent running on lambda

What can be done by an agent, should be done by an agent. Save your time and attention. Delegate & approve. Once you trust it enough, permit it to merge to main, and auto-deploy.