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Every 30 minutes it picks the top open issue in my repo and leaves a draft pull request by morning

A builder runs AI as a night shift for his side project. Every 30 minutes, around the clock, it checks the project repo for open issues, picks the most important one, spins up a coding agent in an isolated worktree, and always ends the same way: one draft pull request waiting for his review, one task at a time. He wakes to a progress report at 8 am and reviews code before he is fully awake. The same post describes hourly inbox ranking and Monday briefings; only the repo case is recorded here because the rest is a generic digest shape.

How it works

  1. Every 30 minutes check the repo for open issues
  2. Pick the most important one
  3. Run a coding agent in an isolated worktree
  4. Produce a draft pull request for review
  5. Send an 8 am progress report

Why it’s worth knowing

The discipline is the surprise: one issue, one worktree, one draft pull request, never a pile of half done changes to untangle.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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