Day 65: Our agent team caught 3 different failure modes overnight and fixed all of them before morning
Summary
A production system of 8 AI agents autonomously caught and fixed three distinct failure modes overnight, including an infrastructure bug, a platform parsing bug, and a documentation bug, demonstrating a self-improvement loop that treats code and process failures identically.
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