His company's agent factory handles the chore tickets and merges a third of the pull requests

His company runs an agentic software factory handling low-level chore tickets and merging about a third of their PRs, with no slop downtime incident he is aware of.

How it works

The agentic factory picks up chore tickets
Does the work
Merges about a third of the company's pull requests

Why it’s worth knowing

A third of the merges now happen without a human writing the change.

Where it’s from

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

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