Hand an agent a backfill and a test suite

Judgment callMedium15 min

Your task

A teammate suggests handing 2 of your sprint tasks to an AI agent end to end, to save time. The first is a Python script that backfills a denormalized display_name column across 40 million rows of users, reading from a profiles table. The second is unit tests for a pure date-formatting function you already wrote.

Does each task suit full delegation, and what separates them?

It covers

  • Task suitability
  • Blast radius