The Self-Healing Codebase: Leveraging Agentic Workflows to Automate Your Side Projects

Balancing the rigors of PhD research with the itch to build software feels like fighting a war on two fronts, where time is the only casualty. When your mental bandwidth is consumed by academic papers and complex modeling, your personal coding projects usually end up gathering digital dust. I realized that to keep building, I had to stop being the "coder" and start being the "orchestrator." By moving beyond simple AI assistance to a fully autonomous agentic workflow, I’ve created a development l