Set It and Ship It: How I Let AI Agents Build My Java Services While I Sleep

I've been doing this job long enough to be suspicious of anything that promises to make it easy. So I want to be upfront: what follows still feels a little unreal to me, even after weeks of watching it work. Here's the short version. The current crop of agents can run for five hours straight and build almost anything you ask for, at a quality level that genuinely holds up. There's a catch, and it's the whole point of this post: they only do that if you write your requirements carefully and…