The Self-Driving Codebase: Full Agent Automation with Otter

The previous post covered how we structured the codebase: Effect conventions, ast-grep enforcement, Drift , and CLAUDE.md to collaborate with Claude Code. You describe what you want, review the output, iterate. That works well. This post is about what happens when you step away entirely: giving the agent a list of issues and letting it work through them while you do something else. In autonomous mode, there's no mid-session correction. Anything the enforcement layer doesn't catch compounds acros