Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
Summary
Cockroach Labs reports on MOLT Sinai, a hospital-like agentic workflow for code development and database migrations driven by AI. The system uses GitHub Actions, planning gates, and labeled issue flow to ensure high-quality outputs, successfully migrating Db2 and enabling the Migration Assistant, while revealing cost and governance tradeoffs. The piece shares lessons on decomposition, planning, and meticulous record-keeping to maintain safety and reliability at scale.