The Self-Driving Codebase: Background Agents and the Next Era of Software Delivery

A coding agent needs your machine and your attention. A background agent needs neither. It runs in its own development environment in the cloud: full toolchain, test suite, everything. Completely decoupled from your device and your session.

Kick one off from your laptop, check the result from your phone. Trigger it from a PR, a Slack thread, a Linear ticket, a webhook, or just spin one up manually. You're not steering it. You're not watching it. It's an asynchronous task: delegate, walk away, review later. It runs for as long as it needs to. --- Strongly agree on the perspective here and looking forward to moving in this direction