AWS's Hydro team wants the compiler to catch coding agents' mistakes
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As AI agents generate increasingly large volumes of code, traditional code reviews are struggling to keep pace. Shadaj Laddad, research lead for the Hydro team at AWS, believes the solution lies in automated correctness checks that operate outside an AI agent’s control.
Speaking at AGNTCon + MCPCon, Laddad explained how Hydro, an open source Rust framework for distributed systems, uses compile-time checks to catch bugs before code runs. Inspired by Rust’s borrow checker, Hydro aims to provide shared, domain-specific guardrails that help developers maintain reliability even as agents produce larger, more complex code changes.
The team is also exploring safeguards for recurring challenges such as idempotency, ensuring retried requests don’t execute twice. Laddad also highlighted Infinity, an open source runtime designed to support massive agent concurrency by suspending idle agents awaiting external operations. Developed jointly by AWS and UC Berkeley, Hydro and Infinity represent efforts to make AI-driven software development more scalable, efficient and trustworthy.
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