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From AI Agents for Performance: Ship Faster, Pay Less — Rajat Shah, Netflix · ≈27:13
A direct warning against inserting agents everywhere — rock-solid test coverage, encoded business logic and canary automation have to exist first or the agents just add bugs and friction.
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- A direct warning against inserting agents everywhere — rock-solid test coverage, encoded business logic and canary automation have to exist first or the agents just add bugs and friction.
Clip transcript
to keep the uh code and service running optimally. And uh I do want to highlight this that uh it's easier to imagine putting AI agent into every single step of your software development life cycle for performance improvements, but that's not the intent of this uh discussion or the uh the thing uh or or the playbook that I'm mentioning. You still want these foundations very, very right. Your test coverage needs to be rock solid. Uh business logic all needs to be very well encoded in your test. Your canary automation needs to be amazing. Uh and this is where you don't need AI. You pretty much just want AI agent to know how to invoke canary, where to get the downloaded report from canary canary, so that it can directly read the numbers from the report and uh make a judgment call. And that pattern catalog that I mentioned is also a foundational piece which needs to be gotten uh which which you need to get right. It It is by design a Git repo, so that it's both a human and a coding agent readable and uh authorable, and you could actually have humans also authoring patterns and anti-pattern as they're let's say building new frameworks and new platform components that uh they have enough context on at the time of building.
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