Autonomous AI agents

Autonomous AI agents are programs built on language models that independently plan steps, call tools and iterate towards a given goal. In software development this means an agent can read the codebase, propose a change, write it, run the tests and fix itself based on the result — without a human dictating every step.

The level of autonomy is governed, not assumed: teams typically start with HITL (human in the loop) and increase autonomy gradually. How to scale this across a company is described in our practical ADLC adoption plan.