Coding agents can work through your backlog overnight so you wake up to a batch of working code ready for review.

Matt Pocock describes the appeal of the Ralph-style loop as letting a coding agent chew through a backlog overnight, producing a batch of working code to review the next morning. ✦ AI generated

Matt Pocock · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-07-14 · original ↗

One of the dreams of coding agents is that you can wake up in the morning to working code, where your coding agent has worked through your backlog. It has spit out a whole bunch of code for you to review, and it works.

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