Duolingo Develops AI Agent to Automate Feature Flag Removal
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Jesse Welch
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Summary
Duolingo has developed an AI agent to automate the removal of feature flags from their codebase, saving engineering time. The agent was built using Temporal workflow orchestration service and Codex CLI, representing the company's first step in creating agentic tools for code operations. The development process was described as quick, easy, and immediately successful, with plans to extend this pattern to future agents.
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The first tool we've built is an agentic feature flag remover, which you can use automatically from our internal pages to clean up your flags!
We built this agent on the workflow orchestration service Temporal using the Codex CLI, a pattern we intend to extend to future agents.
Developing the agent was quick, easy, and immediately successful.
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