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The whole flow of:

creating container -> cloning repo -> making change -> test -> send PR

is too slow of a loop for me to do anything much useful. It's only good for trivial "one-shot" stuff.

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I'd say this method of coding agent interaction is likely a strong contender for integrating coding agents into teams. You start with a really well defined ticket and a good source of relevant documentation for the project then set the agent loose by assigning it a ticket. It does it's thing, maybe asks questions on a group chat or in the ticket, and eventually produces a PR for the ticket. It's the 'interface' behind how a developer interacts with a project already. There's a lot of hand-waving in there and it's not a today or tomorrow thing, but it seems like it's coming fairly soon.

OpenHands does that, I wrote about it if you search my submissions.

thats the premise behind the popular Devin. I don't think it saw any market fit.

I think my wording was unclear. I've run into several products doing this or something similar already. I was more trying to say I think this methodology is going to be the most likely winner of how coding agents are integrated into dev teams. There are still a lot of aspects to work out fully, but they are being worked out.

I use it (and Codex web) specifically when I'm not at my desk (or I am but in the middle of something else) and I want to do something fairly speculative. Kinda either exploratory or investigative. I may or may not use the results but it doesn't get in the way of anything I'm actually currently doing. I mostly use Codex for this as I want to save my Claude quota for the task at hand.

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