Ed Barros

When is an AI agent's work done?

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0400

An agent opens a pull request in twenty minutes. A person takes an hour to review it properly. Put five agents on five demands and the bottleneck is no longer writing the code — it is the reviewer’s desk. Parallelism that stops there only moves the queue.

DOP is a platform I am building where a developer and an agent run a demand end to end. Two of its architecture decisions answer the question in the title, and the answer is the same in both: no green, no PR — and green has to be earned honestly.

The files that make Claude Code yours

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0400

Claude Code reads a handful of plain-text files before it does anything for you. Most people never open them, and then wonder why the assistant keeps running the wrong test command or asking permission for the same thing every morning. Know the files and the tool starts working your way.

Where they live

Two places: the project, which the whole team shares through git, and your home directory, which is yours alone.

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Outside of work, barbecue, jiu-jitsu, and a considered stance on liberty round things out — three interests that show up in the writing almost as often as anything technical.

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When is an AI agent's work done?

The files that make Claude Code yours

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