Always-on agents run production without the on-call tax — Justin Smith, Resolve AI
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
Why it matters
Coding agents raised the volume of change reaching production without raising the monitoring that follows it. This lays out how to close that gap with agents that plan their own checks rather than fire fixed alerts.
Key quotes
“really coding was never the the the big bottleneck, right?”
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“it's one thing to go check a dashboard. It's another thing to say that metric smells off.”
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“any change inside of your environment is an opportunity for something to go wrong”
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“this is for anybody that's had to be on call before, um you know, on call is a it's a nightmare, right?”
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“it would be great if you had a single engineer just focused on like watching all the things on every release, but that's really expensive”
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