The New Team Member
The First Real Deployment
Yesterday, we brought Darkfab into the world – our autonomous coding agent. Today, the next step: connecting the first client project.
A productive TYPO3 project. No test run, no sandbox – real tickets, real codebase, real users. We configured Darkfab in MR mode: every change goes through a merge request, a human reviews and merges.
PX-AI Coder Delivers
We submitted real tasks to PX-AI Coder – bugfixes, migration scripts, UI corrections. Tasks that a developer would normally handle manually.
The result: every single merge request could be accepted directly. No rework, no rejections, no "almost, but...". The code was clean, commits sensibly structured, changes traceable.
We were genuinely surprised. Not because we didn't trust the system – but because the first real client deployment went so smoothly.
A New Team Member
From today, PX-AI Coder is a permanent team member. Not a tool you use occasionally – a colleague who takes on tasks, solves them independently and delivers clean results.
That sounds strange. It is.
You get used to writing tickets instead of code. You review merge requests instead of working in the codebase yourself. Your own workflow shifts – from "I'll do this" to "I'll delegate this".
It's weird. But somehow also great.
What We Learned
MR mode is exactly the right approach for client projects. The quality is there, the review process remains intact, and responsibility stays with the human. YOLO mode for internal repositories, MR mode for anything with productive relevance – this split works.
The real challenge isn't technical. It's the mindset that needs to shift. From "I write code" to "I steer an agent that writes code". That takes practice. But after today, we know: it's worth it.
Daily Summary – February 19, 2026
Numbers straight from the git logs of all connected repositories:
Overview
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Connected repositories | 5 |
| Total commits | 97 |
| PX-AI Coder (autonomous) | 21 |
| YOLO mode | 69 (16 autonomous) |
| MR mode | 28 (5 autonomous) |
| Lines added | 56,719 |
| Lines deleted | 1,201 |
| API costs | ~$25 |
| Autonomy level | 21.6% |
Autonomous Tickets by Category
Of the 21 autonomous tickets:
- 10 on the Darkfab repository itself (self-improvement, security, metrics, i18n)
- 6 on test repositories (validating the agent pipeline)
- 5 on a productive client project (TYPO3: bugfixes, migration scripts, UI corrections)
From the first Initial commit to the final Dockerfile und Docker Compose – 24 hours in which an idea became a running system with real client use.