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Comment by stephbook | Hacker News Reader

I long for the day when they will supervise CI/CD systems.

Trying to fix syntax errors in strong interpolation on a 5-minute-delay loop is hell.

Just create a skill for it -> I call mine `babysit`. It spins up a subagent that polls it every x minutes and auto-fixes it until it's green. I already continue with the next task while it does that in the background

I do this with our AI PR review checks. We have AI review every PR and commits to PRs... which can cause long running loops of commit<>fix.

So my agent just listens for green checks and no PR comments and loops until those conditions are met.

About 30% of our AI PR review checks are flawed at a fundamental level, based on poor comprehension of the whole. If I told the AI "fix everything and keep going until it's green" I would be terrified of the result.

I disbelieve this works in anything other than a toy codebase (or an incredibly fine-grained microservice).

The 70% is amazing! But a 30% failure rate requires intense supervision.

It is possible. I tell to use cli app, and for the agent to ad timer and check the status once in a while. Especially if there is something with a long wait. Also if it can run some validators/ same tools locally, would be much faster.

Might tend to deviate and waste time, needs guiding once in a while, and to check what is it spewing out, point it in the correct direction.

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