Can AI agents fully automate the ticket-to-PR workflow?

odedro987 · reddit · 2026-08-18

A Reddit discussion explores the current state of AI adoption in software engineering, specifically asking if any companies have implemented fully autonomous agents that take a Jira ticket and open a PR without human intervention during the coding process. The author distinguishes this from copilots like Cursor/Claude that require active prompting and seeks insights on necessary context (repo access, style guides, architecture docs) and barriers to adoption (quality issues, context limits, or prioritization).

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