Engineer's post-mortem shows autonomous AI agents spent 33 percent of 15-day sprint on non-product work

According to a GitHub post-mortem shared by an engineer, AI agents spent 5 of 15 autonomous development days on non-product code including infrastructure and tooling rather than feature development. The analysis revealed gaps in goal-directed autonomous behavior and suggested that AI coding productivity metrics may not fully capture time allocation across work categories.

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