How to Make Your Codebase Agent-Ready

I mean, I'll dive right in, Tracy, by saying, like-

Okay

... you know, we had a bit of a chat to prepare beforehand, and I was really big on hand-waving away some of the basics, because-

Mm-hmm

... like, you know, you gotta be under version control.

Come on, y'all, like let's, let's be obvious.

If you're not using Git, you're not even, you're not even vibe coding.

I don't even know what you're doing.

You're kind of more like brainstorming, you know what I'm saying? So, like you gotta have Git.

The other one, I mean, that popped up is like you gotta have linters and tests, and like I, I get that.

I feel like that information is out there and ready for anyone that wants to receive it.

Like definitely have automated tests, definitely have linting and stuff like that in place.

But, um, Jonathan, you kind of started to get like really opinionated on a topic that like I feel very strongly about, and it had to do with like how quickly can you get the dev environment set up, right? Like I, I feel like this is important, something that someone needs to be thinking about this if they wanna get their code base ready for agentic development.

Yeah, I kind of think it's one of the most underlooked areas, but quick and easy setup.

I think for a lot of projects, uh, you know, it's acceptable that you download it from Git, and it might take you, you know, several minutes to days to set up a project.

And I think in an agentic world, really you should be looking for that sweet spot of like 30 to 60 seconds, and I'm talking end to end, doing everything you can to automate the process.

So I mean, when you really stop and think about it, that's a lot going into it.

It's not just gonna be your code.

It's your identity.

It's, you know, any sort of database setup.

It's all the things that support the code to get it up and running, and I just feel like if you get that really kind of quick and easy setup, not only is it gonna be easy for the human, but it starts to get really easy for AI to come in and start to look at your code immediately.

Hmm.

I, I would've never thought that like getting a project spun up would actually be like so high on your guys' priority list when it comes to getting ready for agents.

Austin, you're nodding your head, like why is that?

Um, w- one, because it's a, a developer experience issue.