The authors describe agents that take issues through a workup, a plan and a review before any code is written, from April 21 to September 11. Their summary rule is "No code before a plan, no plan without review." After the first week they…
In the News: October 11, 2026 (Extra 2)
Cockroach Labs reports five months of agents behind human approval, and Dex Horthy argues unattended models will not keep a codebase healthy.
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Cockroach Labs reports five months of agents working behind review gates
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Heumann protects the checker after agents produce plausible, wrong code
Heumann says agents decompiled about 80% of a game in four weeks, enough to launch it, reach the main menu and load maps. The code had wrong function signatures, types and struct layouts, and his post says agents also invented or removed…
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Horthy argues unattended models will not keep a codebase healthy
Horthy, who says his company sells a multiplayer coding agent workspace, opens by arguing that unattended models will not improve or maintain codebase quality over time, so teams should keep reading the code for now. He cites a report he…