Thorsten Ball argues teams should now ship more bugs on purpose, because agents catch them faster than review does
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Joy & Curiosity #97, published August 30, makes the case that access to debugging agents that find and fix defects at scale changes the economics of quality gates. Ball's position is that teams should recalibrate defect tolerance upward and go faster, on the reasoning that bugs will be caught and fixed quickly rather than prevented. It is a direct inversion of the zero-defect deploy posture, from someone who has been writing on Claude Code internals all year.