The AI Factory That Ships PRs—With a Catch
Hundreds of weekly pull requests sound like the end of software bottlenecks. The surprise is that more autonomy made one developer add more visibility and carefully chosen human decisions.
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Hundreds of weekly pull requests sound like the end of software bottlenecks. The surprise is that more autonomy made one developer add more visibility and carefully chosen human decisions.
We run our own AI agent on support@stork.ai, so we fact-checked every AI email and support tool we list against its own pricing pages and docs. What we found: 'per resolution' billing that counts customer silence as success, autonomy marketing that runs from 'no human in the loop' to 'human-in-control,' and an industry that is draft-first behind the scenes — plus the RFC 3834 mechanics almost nobody documents.
The promise of 'fire-and-forget' AI workflows is here with agentic loops. But without the right guardrails, you're just building a 'slop machine' that burns tokens and delivers chaos.
Agentic loops promise fully autonomous AI builders that work while you sleep. But top engineers warn they're often just 'slop machines' that burn cash and make flawed assumptions.