https://dimonb.com/categories/posts/Recent content in Posts on DimonBlogHugoen-usblog@dimonb.com (Dmitrii Balabanov)blog@dimonb.com (Dmitrii Balabanov)Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:10:00 +0300https://dimonb.com/posts/a-loop-not-a-pipeline/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:10:00 +0300blog@dimonb.com (Dmitrii Balabanov)https://dimonb.com/posts/a-loop-not-a-pipeline/<blockquote> <p>Agents can write code, but autonomous software development is not a code-generation problem. It is a control-systems problem: designing feedback loops, independent verification, repair, and measured autonomy.</p> </blockquote> <p>Agents already write most of the code at frontier companies, yet no system in the world runs the path &ldquo;idea → code → production → operations&rdquo; without a human. This article argues that the bottleneck is not model intelligence but the engineering of feedback loops, and derives four design rules for an autonomous full-cycle system. The frame comes from reliability theory and cybernetics of the 1950s-70s — where &ldquo;build reliable systems out of unreliable components&rdquo; was solved once already — combined with the LLM-agent research of 2023-2026, where it is being solved a second time.</p>