Cockroach Labs ran a 5-month experiment treating bugs as patients with a medical-team of coding agents
rafiss · hn · 2026-10-09
For five months, the Cockroach Labs team ran an experiment: treat software bugs like patients and organize coding agents like a hospital staff. Agents took on triage, specialist-consult, and attending-physician style roles, handing off context through staged diagnosis and fix-verification phases instead of letting one agent do everything. The writeup covers how the multi-agent workflow performed, how the roles coordinated, and what they learned mapping traditional debugging/SRE practice onto agent orchestration.
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