Story · Niels Rogge (Hugging Face)
How I automate my own job at Hugging Face using agents (Niels Rogge (Hugging Face))
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Rogge automated his own outreach job twice: a deterministic nightly workflow with tracing and no agent framework, then an autonomous bash loop where every GitHub issue runs in its own sandbox. Thousands of automated issues have drawn exactly two negative replies; recipients are not told an agent wrote to them.
In plain words
- Niels Rogge built two systems to automate outreach he previously handled himself at Hugging Face.
- A fixed nightly process follows his old steps, using artificial intelligence at specific points instead of choosing its own path.
- A newer system acts on its own, with each GitHub issue isolated inside a separate computing space.
- He can inspect the instructions, cost, and response time for each step of the nightly process.
- People designing workplace automation get a clear comparison between predictable steps and systems that choose their next action.
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Aug 21, 2026 · in the sections
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