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Cockroach Labs ran its codebase like a hospital for five months
Original: Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
Cockroach Labs engineers describe a five-month 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 details how the unusual workflow changed how the team diagnosed and resolved defects, and it is drawing attention among developers debating how far agentic coding setups should go in real engineering work.
Why now: It offers a concrete, months-long account of using AI coding agents in production software maintenance, a topic developers are actively debating.
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