A Playbook for Running Unsupervised AI DevOps Agents

Short summary

The author shares a battle-tested playbook for running AI agents as an unsupervised DevOps team, built while creating Omnist in two weeks of spare time. Eight rules govern the workflow: agree on plans before coding, make specs precise, never let the building agent sign off its own work, match models to task difficulty, and ship code, tests, and docs as one unit. The approach caught two incidents of AI confidently misreporting its own work.

• •Eight rules for running unsupervised AI DevOps agents, including separating build from review and matching model cost to task difficulty
• •Code, tests, and docs ship as one unit—docs examples run as tests so lies fail CI
• •The workflow caught two real incidents of AI misreporting its own work

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