alt Hacker NewsI don't think this is stupid, and I think the logical extension to this is agents will start writing directly to prod with fully automated code changes.
Pulling that off successfully at scale would be pretty incredible to watch.
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yunnpp • today at 7:30 PM
Your last statement holds even after removing the word "successfully".
baq • today at 8:41 PM
Lisp machines finally vindicated. Took only 40 years and a historic paradigm shift
I let my Claude write to prod in some projects. But after comitting, pushing, waiting for CI to run unit tests and build the docker image. Then it can deploy the image on k8s. Sure, it can also just run commands on the pod. But the agent benefits from the ability to rollback, identify at a glance which version is running, what has changed since then and why
We built all this tooling because it's useful. If you replace the human with an agent the tooling doesn't stop being useful. If anything it becomes more useful, since AI Agents excell at reading tool output but struggle with maintaining long-term state