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AI agents now do most of the work on my ten open source projects

He maintains about ten repositories in his spare time, including work on Bootstrap, and the issue trackers grow faster than his evenings. Since October 3, 2026 a conductor AI session paces background agents that read and draft under written rules, and he gets one question at a time. On Bootstrap every open item is analyzed and a fix prepared when needed, and nothing is posted without a maintainer.

How it works

  1. Sets up a conductor AI session that plans and paces background agents
  2. Agents work in each repo under written rules and share state through a small tool
  3. What waits on him is capped per repo and reaches him as one explained decision at a time
  4. On Bootstrap every open item is analyzed and fixes are prepared, but nothing is posted without a maintainer

Why it’s worth knowing

The whole setup is built around his attention, not the agents’ speed. He gets one question at a time, even from his phone in the subway.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on deramond.dev. See the original ↗

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A ready-to-use prompt for this idea, built from research on what makes AI agents do the job right: who the AI should be, the exact steps, and a check to make sure it was done the way you wanted.

1Who the AI should be
2The prompt, with the steps
3The check when it’s done
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