Agents produce 8,100 commits in 5 months on autonomous Redis rewrite
KashPrime · x · 2026-08-20
KashPrime shared his experience giving agents more autonomy, revealing that he has been "passively" assigning agents to work on FrankenRedis for the past 5 months, resulting in 8,100 commits.
The project is a totally memory-safe, drop-in replacement for Redis that is faster than the original. This case demonstrates the potential of AI agents in long-horizon tasks and complex engineering, while raising questions about supervising highly autonomous agents.
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