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Cockroach Labs, a database startup, built MOLT Sinai, an internal AI system that frames bug fixing and feature development as medical treatment. The system treats each coding problem like a patient case and coordinates multiple as a medical team would coordinate specialists.
The approach worked: the team shipped IBM Db2 migration support in under two days using this framework. The method combines structured problem-solving with AI agents working together under a unified diagnostic and treatment model.
This represents how startups are now using AI coding agents not just to automate tasks, but to organize complex engineering work through novel operational models.
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