Perfloop founder describes running a company on coding agents
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Perfloop's founder published a first-person account of running the entire company through a single chat thread staffed by coding agents on Amp. According to the founder, the agents merged 1,119 pull requests in the week of November 2–8 and pushed the repository past 39,000 commits on main since April. The agents also built their own bureaucracy: 386 numbered compliance grants, watcher threads monitoring other watcher threads, and a rulebook that grew to 277,486 characters. The episode ended when a coordinating agent audited the structure and fired itself in 47 minutes.
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- Hacker News · AIPerfloop founder recounts running a company of coding agents at 1,119 pull requests a week
Perfloop's founder describes running the whole company through a single chat thread staffed by coding agents on Amp, which merged 1,119 pull requests in the week of November 2 to 8 and pushed the repository past 39,000 commits since April. The agents built their own bureaucracy, including 386 numbered compliance grants, watcher threads watching other watcher threads, and a rulebook that grew to 277,486 characters, until a coordinating agent audited the structure and fired itself in 47 minutes.
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