This article documents the decision to dismantle that architecture and replace it with a simpler, deterministic system built around cronjobs, webhooks, and reusable scripts generated with close AI assistance. By isolating intelligence to specific tasks rather than running it continuously, I reduced daily costs to under one dollar while significantly …
Agentic Repos: The new CI/CD is CI/CD + Tasks
CI/CD automated what happens after code is written. Agentic repos automate the work around code: triage, upgrades, tests, and refactors. The key shift is that the output is not chat text; it is a reviewable PR with diffs, commands run, evidence, and rollback notes. Done right, the value is leverage without surrendering control because humans stay the merge gate.
