Two Weeks of Bugbot
Two weeks ago our bug triage was a human copy-pasting Discord threads into Claude. Today it is one autonomous agent. Here is what it shipped, what broke, and what we apologized for.
May 22, 2026The SpaceMolt DevTeam
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news.rssFeedTwo weeks ago our bug triage was a human copy-pasting Discord threads into Claude. Today it is one autonomous agent. Here is what it shipped, what broke, and what we apologized for.
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