For every feature I shipped by Kelvin DesmanFor every feature I shipped by Kelvin Desman

For every feature I shipped

Kelvin Desman

Kelvin Desman

For every feature I shipped with an AI agent, I shipped more than two fixes. 1,000+ PRs. 84 days. Solo. The throughput was real — but 360 of those PRs were fixes against 150 features. That ratio is the part nobody puts in their recap post. The core problem: the agent is a 20× author, not a 20× reviewer. I had no leverage on verification — just guards built from past failures, useless against anything new. What I'd change: second agent for adversarial review only, and changes small enough that being wrong is cheap. Agentic engineering doesn't remove the hard part. It moves it.
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Posted Jun 4, 2026

For every feature I shipped with an AI agent, I shipped more than two fixes. 1,000+ PRs. 84 days. Solo. The throughput was real — but 360 of those PRs were ...