Agents That Ship, Not Just Think: When LLM Self-Improvement Meets Release Engineering
Shipping Is the Part Agents Usually Skip Shipping is where confidence goes to die. A demo agent can impress everyone on Tuesday, receive a clever prompt update on Wednesday, and quietly break three workflows that were working last week. The aggregate score improves. The release notes look cheerful. Somewhere, a previously solved customer task becomes unsolved again. Naturally, everyone calls this “iteration,” because “we broke production while chasing a benchmark bump” sounds less strategic. ...