--- title: Running AI Coding Agents for 13 Days Straight: A... description: Simon Last (Loom co-founder) documented a method for running AI coding agents continuously for 13 days on real production work. The approach treats the agent... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/running-ai-coding-agents-for-13-days-straight-a-practical-guide-58hrjrd0s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Running AI Coding Agents for 13 Days Straight: A Practical Guide | daily.dev og:description: Simon Last (Loom co-founder) documented a method for running AI coding agents continuously for 13 days on real production work. The approach treats the agent... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/running-ai-coding-agents-for-13-days-straight-a-practical-guide-58hrjrd0s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/58HRJrD0S.png og:image:alt: Running AI Coding Agents for 13 Days Straight: A Practical Guide og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Running AI Coding Agents for 13 Days Straight: A Practical Guide **[SitePoint](https://daily.dev/sources/sitepoint)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Simon Last (Loom co-founder) documented a method for running AI coding agents continuously for 13 days on real production work. The approach treats the agent as an unreliable worker and builds disciplined infrastructure around it. Key principles include decomposing work into atomic file-scoped task files with explicit acceptance criteria, using CLAUDE.md as persistent project memory committed to the repo, writing a bash orchestration script that feeds tasks sequentially to Claude Code CLI in isolated sessions, gating every task with automated tests before committing, and committing after every completed task for easy rollback. The article provides a full orchestration script, task file templates, CLAUDE.md structure, failure mode diagnosis, and advanced techniques like parallel agent tracks and self-updating memory files. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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