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Coding Agents Need a Feedback Loop; Cloud-Native Systems Make That Hard

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Coding agents generate code fast, but in distributed systems, validating that code is slow and complex. Real validation requires real dependencies across multiple services — not mocks. Shared staging causes contention, and per-task ephemeral stacks are expensive. The fix is isolated, realistic, agent-scale environments paired with operational "skills" that tell agents how to test their own changes effectively.

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