Posts tagged agents
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GitHub doesn't bill time, it bills jobs
I seeded a private repo from this one and burned a monthly Actions quota in forty-eight hours. The pipeline had not changed; the repository had. The multiplier that did it is the same thing that makes the gate fast — twelve parallel jobs, each rounded up to a full minute, green in three and a half minutes of wall clock and billed for twelve.
Design first, or the agent designs for you
An agent can infer almost everything about a codebase from the codebase. What it cannot infer is the inventory — which components exist, what they are called, and which ones were deliberately refused. Here that lives on a design board committed beside the code, and the routing file points the agent at it before it writes a line.
What is Sandcastle — and why does this repo build itself?
The autonomous orchestrator that lives in .sandcastle/ plans, implements, reviews and merges GitHub issues while I am away from the keyboard. Why it belongs in a portfolio repo, what "AFK" actually buys, and how every other tool in the monorepo lines up behind the same quality gate.
The guardrail you can switch off
A branch protection rule blocked two merges to main in one afternoon. Both times it caught the assistant, never the autonomous agent — and the same session removed the rule for two seconds and put it back.
Visual regression with agents: the pixel diff is no longer enough
Why traditional snapshot testing breaks down when part of the code is written by an agent, and what strategy replaces it.