Automation

Automating standup notes with AI seemed like a small quality-of-life win. It turned out to surface real questions about surveillance, trust, and what standup is actually for.

Cursor launched Automations on March 5, letting you set up always-on agents triggered by code changes, Slack messages, or PagerDuty alerts. After a week of testing, here’s what it actually looks like to manage a team where agents review every PR before a human even opens it.

GitHub’s new Agentic Workflows let coding agents run inside Actions to triage issues, update docs, and propose fixes — automatically. I ran them on a production repo for a week. Some results were genuinely impressive. Others reminded me why ‘autonomous’ still needs human oversight.

A complete walkthrough of integrating AI into every phase of software development — from planning to deploy. What works, what doesn’t, and the workflow I’ve settled on.