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title: "Responsible engineering in agent workflows"
date: 2026-01-22
canonical: https://solmaz.io/x/2014251981867495783/
x_url: https://x.com/onusoz/status/2014251981867495783
license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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on being a responsible engineer

ran my first ralph loop on codex yolo mode for resolving python ty errors, while I sleep, using the devbox infra I created

I had never run yolo mode locally, because I don't want to be the one who deletes our github or google org by some novel attack

so I containerize it on our private cloud, and give it the only permissions it needs, no admin, no bypass to main branch, no deploy to prod. because I know this workflow will become sticky for everyone, and I must impose security in advance to prevent any nuclear incidents in the future. then I can sleep easy while my agents work

... and I wake up being patronized by my bot refusing to break the rule I gave it earlier. it had already done some work, but committing means diff would increase from ~500 to ~1500, so it stopped and refused all my queued "continue" messages

good bot, just following rules. we will need to find a workaround for ralphing low risk refactors in a single PR