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Build software that heals itself in the agentic era
In the agentic era, an AI agent can write the fix — but letting one patch production is terrifying unless the architecture makes it safe. Here's a software-design pattern for self-healing systems: never crash, turn every failure into a structured anonymous signature, and let an agent close the loop behind a sandbox and adversarial gates. Our open-source MIME parser is the worked example; the pattern applies far beyond it.