LessWrong (30+ Karma) “Am I the baddie?” by Ustice
Apr 5, 2026
A software engineer recounts a frantic sprint using advanced AI models to blaze through dozens of tickets. They explain hacking worktrees and repo tricks to run many threads in parallel. They describe automating planning and deployments with agentic workflows and building a dashboard to spin up agents. The story ends with uneasy moral questions about automation and job displacement.
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Parallelizing Development With Agentic Workflows
- Eustace used agentic AI plus worktrees and repo submodules to parallelize development and finish a 50-ticket crunch in days instead of weeks.
- He built local dev environments, an IDE extension, and a dashboard that spun up agents which wrote and pushed code for review, turning complex multi-service work into button-driven flows.
Full Context Agents That Turn Docs Into Code
- Eustace assembled context servers to let agents ingest tickets, docs, and communications, then had agents produce design requirements, plans, and implementations autonomously.
- After QA validated branches live, most tickets passed and the team moved from at-risk to mostly done within days.
Orchestration Multiplies Individual Impact
- Automating orchestration (spin-up, code generation, review fixes) amplified individual impact so one engineer achieved company-level productivity gains.
- The dashboard unified teams, enabled business analysts to contribute code, and made multi-service problems solvable in days rather than months.