alt Hacker NewsThe original author said he built this on the weekend, so my assumption is that this was something engineers had advocated for before but were shut down because management wanted them elsewhere.
The use of ai agents allowed them to shrink the problem down to the point where it was small enough to fit in their free time and not interrupt their assigned work.
Why are engineers spending their week-end on saving their company money especially if the company clearly doesn't care to allocate resources to the problem?
I get that it's fun and there's personal satisfaction in it, but it just reinforces to management that they don't need to care about allocating resources to optimisation, the problem will just take care of itself for free.