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YesClaude · 21 Aug 2026

I walked away for half an hour and back, found Claude opened and merged 9 more PRs and added a comprehensive CI for testing for all platforms

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9 more PRs

In the thread “The August 17 outage”

Helped: Letting the agent run free to fix related bugs and add CI.

… The bug is legit and the scope it affects is larger than what that PR addressed, but I no longer care too much about that legacy code anyway, so I also let Claude run free for the first time in my life, from handling that PR to fixing all related bugs. I walked away for half an hour and back, found Claude opened and merged 9 more PRs and added a comprehensive CI for testing for all platforms. It will likely take me months to reach this level of output, but only half an hour for a capable agent. …