Slartibartfast: hands-off coding in the wee hours
I've spent the last few nights rolling myself a "software factory", a system for using an unattended coding agent to autonomously pick and work on issues from my GitHub repositories.
The system's name is Slartibartfast, after the hapless designer of fjords in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For short, I call it "Bart".
The primary Bart process is a good old-fashioned program, not an AI. It runs on the same server that hosts my 3 live websites (Zingor; Unsphere; and this blog).
On startup, Bart builds a list of all open issues from my GitHub repositories which satisfy the following criteria: