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Treating software bugs like hospital patients
Original: Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
An engineer at Cockroach Labs has spent five months running a personal experiment that manages software bugs the way a hospital treats patients, casting coding agents as doctors and specialists in a triage-style workflow. The write-up on the company's blog is drawing attention on developer forums, where commenters are debating whether treating debugging as coordinated medical care actually improves how AI coding agents resolve complex bugs.
Why now: It offers a novel framework for organising AI coding agents, a topic developers are actively experimenting with right now.
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