Where should the trust boundary for AI coding agents live? Dev argues merges need human sign-off
Fantastic-Sleep-3352 · reddit · 2026-09-21
A developer building an engineering control layer for coding agents opens a discussion on where agent authority should stop. Agents can now write code, run tests, create commits and open PRs, but critical actions shouldn't automatically belong to the agent. His proposed workflow: Write → Test → Commit → PR → Human decision. The interesting open question is what happens when an agent tries to cross that boundary — and whether an AI coding agent should ever be allowed to merge its own code.
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