His agent queries the database freely and triages bugs with the monitoring tools

Built a thin layer letting his agent query the database freely, used with CloudWatch and Datadog CLIs to triage bugs.

How it works

He builds a thin layer letting his agent query the database freely
Uses it with the cloud and error monitoring command tools
Bugs get triaged against live data

Why it’s worth knowing

Free database access is the trust step that makes the answers real.

Where it’s from

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

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