A few weeks ago two of our engineers described putting the Boy Scout Rule on a schedule — an AI agent that opens a small refactor every workday. We took the same shape and pointed it somewhere messier: our production monitoring. Here's the Datadog auto-fix playbook, the fixes it actually lands, and why we review these far more carefully than the code ones.
A few weeks ago two of our engineers described putting the Boy Scout Rule on a schedule — an AI agent that opens a small refactor every workday. We took the same shape and pointed it somewhere messier: our production monitoring. Here's the Datadog auto-fix playbook, the fixes it actually lands, and why we review these far more carefully than the code ones.
What happens when you put the Boy Scout Rule on a cron schedule — a few weeks of letting an AI agent propose small refactorings every workday, and the safeguards that make it safe.
Second in our Show and Tell series. On going from a solo developer overwhelmed by requests to an architect directing a team of AI agents — and the exact workflow, tools, and rules that made it possible.
How we built a semantic layer in git and an AI-facing MCP gateway to make our Snowflake data warehouse trustworthy and accessible to everyone — including AI agents.
When a P1 hits, an AI agent is already reviewing deployments, scanning logs, and opening a war room before the first human joins. Here's how we built an incident management system where agents do the heavy lifting — from detection to post-mortem.
How Rohlik's Maia team turned customer conversations into overnight merge requests, with humans only at the approval gate.