AWS’s Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents’ mistakes

AWS’s Hydro team is exploring domain-specific guardrails, such as compile-time checks, to help catch coding errors and correctness issues introduced by AI coding agents. Shadaj Laddad, research lead for the team, argues that traditional code reviews cannot keep pace with AI-generated code and that tests written by agents themselves cannot always be trusted. Additionally, the team recently open-sourced Infinity, an agent runtime designed to suspend idle agents during tool calls or CI jobs. Open article →