I also do a first-read of the draft PR to make sure it is good quality, as I am ultimately responsible for the work my agent creates
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Helped: Local inference allows overnight batch processing of completed work.
Got in the way: Reviewing agent output is the primary bottleneck.
… A second human has to approve every PR in our repos (good practice and also a requirement for SOC2, which will impede any fully-automated pipeline adoption in regulated industries). I also do a first-read of the draft PR to make sure it is good quality, as I am ultimately responsible for the work my agent creates and to shift the responsibility of first-look (for any AI output) to another person is disrespectful to their time and inefficient. Hence "glass-factory" as the "Dark Factory" pattern is a black box with no human intervention, but I think that is not something suitable for how teams build software products for real users presently, at least in the near …