Justin Searls: Building an Autonomous Agent Workflow for App Development

The author outlines a fully automated software development system where autonomous coding agents handle bug fixes, feature implementations, and testing around the clock across a suite of Apple-platform apps. The human operator acts as a decision-maker, reviewing high-level product direction and unresolved edge cases through a custom notification and prototyping app called MeatProxy. The author argues that shifting the human role from manual implementation and diff-reviewing to high-level product curation significantly improves development efficiency. Open article →