The hire takes a quarter; the backlog grows weekly
You post a role. Three months later someone starts. Meanwhile the queue grew: tests, migrations, upgrades, small features. Hiring is necessary — but it's a slow fix for a fast problem.
Where the hours actually go
Senior engineers spend much of their week on work that is boring, well-scoped, and verifiable — exactly the work an autonomous agent can take. Every hour moved off that list is an hour back on the hard problems you hired seniors for.
The math
One engineer ≈ $12,500/mo. Sweet Team = $1,000/mo (~8% of one engineer). Clear ~8% of one engineer's output and it's already paid for. See pricing and the Team plan.
What teams actually do
- Keep hiring for the senior, judgment-heavy roles.
- Put agents on the backlog list instead of waiting.
- Review agent PRs like any teammate's.
- Reinvest the freed hours in the roadmap.
The safety question
"Is it safe to let an agent run code?" Sweet's CLI runs locally on your machine; web sessions run in isolated, unprivileged, egress-restricted microVMs. Details →
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