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  • The metaphor from the title does not speak to me. Treat bugs like patients. How. By making bugs "feel better and be stronger"? I'm sure they mean "treating bugs like illnesses".
    by throw1234567891
  • I really like this writeup. I find the metaphor satisfying, though there's a reason metaphor receded into the bushes as a practice in XP. A great metaphor is great to have, but they don't always exist. Fortunately with organizational systems, things will tend to rhyme. For example, a role that "Verifies that all processes have been followed before anything merges" seems like it could fit many different systems. We're at this fun stage where people are just trying stuff and I love it. I hope we get more info from this experiment.
    by Selkirk
  • Rafi and I, who authored this post, will be hanging out here for any questions people may have.
    by ajstorm
  • The next role: Insurance Rep.

    Ensures all other agents are operating efficiently and within reasonable levels of token usage given the expected level of effort to 'resolve' the patient. In moderate to severe cases, may lead to patient defenestration or agent revolt.

    Or perhaps, the author considered this role but found it typically costs more than it saves.

    by gausswho
  • A hint at why GitHub actions have been unreliable. How many teams are running factories like this on GH infra now?
    by james_marks
  • I can think of nothing I'd like to use less than a database or filesystem vibecoded by Gas Town-flavored psychosis. Roleplaying with LLMs is not the secret to producing amazing code.
    by anonymous908213
  • > it’s consumed just over $135,000 in Claude tokens

    Ironically also just like a US hospital. Go in and come out with a six-figure bill.

    by traceroute66
  • This feels to me like a lovely example of both high-quality systems design and information theory. From my perspective, one of the more abstractly interesting thoughts surfaced by this write-up is the degree to which you've "encoded" a highly complex set of relationships through use of metaphor.

    That type of encoding (starting with the statement: you're at a teaching hospital) is profoundly more efficient than having to deeply and reliably articulate what each of the various roles your agents embody are, let alone their interactions.

    Perhaps there is more room for any of us to consider what existing systems or identities are described abundantly in training sets and can be leveraged to ritualistically encode these social/civic/cultural dynamics saying: "act as though you're ___." Not exactly a new point, but one this write-up certainly is pulling me towards.

    Thank you for sharing and the care you put into writing this!

    by finnborge

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