Who controls what happens after an AI coding agent commits a change?
Fantastic-Sleep-3352 · reddit · 2026-09-29
A developer building infrastructure around autonomous coding agents argues the hard problem isn't whether agents can modify a repo, but what happens after: infinite retries, technically valid but wrong changes, excessive permissions, partial verification. He proposes a separate 'engineering control plane for agents' covering identity, permissions, task boundaries, verification, retries/recovery, auditability and human approval — and asks where the boundary between agent autonomy and engineering authority should be drawn.
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