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7/1/2026
Build software that heals itself in the agentic era

Build software that heals itself in the agentic era

Short summary

Self-healing software captures structured, PII-free failure signatures and uses AI agents to propose fixes, but safety depends on sandboxing, adversarial gates, and canary rollouts—not model trust. The 5-move pattern (tolerant core, plugin seam, failure signature, cold/hot loops, gated sandbox) makes agent-generated fixes safe and automatic. Applicable to any system processing messy input: CSVs, PDFs, logs, address parsing.

  • •Agents propose fixes from structured failure signatures; diagnostics never include PII, addresses, or message content
  • •Safety enforced by sandboxing, adversarial gates, golden corpus regression tests, canary rollouts, and per-fix kill switches
  • •Pattern applies across messy input boundaries: mail parsing, CSV/bank imports, PDF/OCR extraction, log parsing, address normalization

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