How to Turn Slop into Gold: Concrete Steps for Trustworthy Coding Agents

The author outlines concrete steps for making coding agents trustworthy, arguing that teams must clean up training code, enforce rules through tests and linters, and heavily invest in runtime and formal verification before automating workflows. By implementing these practices, the author's team reportedly achieved 11,000 monthly pull requests with a low revert rate. The author warns that automating flawed coding loops will only produce software slop faster. Open article →