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Cockroach Labs ran coding agents like a hospital ward
Original: Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
Cockroach Labs engineers spent five months running an experiment in which software bugs were treated like patients and AI coding agents were organised like a medical team, with triage, specialists and follow-up care. The write-up describes how the setup changed how the team debugged and reviewed agent-written fixes, and it is drawing attention from developers debating whether such 'hospital' workflows are a practical model or elaborate theatre for agent-driven debugging.
Why now: The unusual hospital metaphor for organising AI coding agents is a novel, debatable take on debugging workflows that engineers are weighing in on.
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