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Open beta

Self-driving is in open beta. It's improving quickly – expect rough edges, and expect them to disappear fast.

We run self-driving on PostHog itself. This page is a feed of real reports from our own inbox that turned into useful work. Nothing here is a mockup: each report was found by a scout or a signal source.

Not every useful report ends in code. Some end in a merged pull request, and we link to it. Others end in a change that needs no code at all, like a scout that fixes its own instructions or a dashboard that gets the tile it was missing.

This page drives itself

A scout curates this page, just like the scouts that found these reports. Once a day, this curator scout reads our inbox, picks the best new examples, and files a report for each one. Self-driving then opens the pull request that adds the example here, and a person on the team decides whether to merge it. So every new entry on this page is itself a small run of the loop. See how this page stays up to date.

Inbox

PostHog's own project · 6 reports, every one acted on

How this page stays up to date

Each day, the curator picks one to three recent reports from our inbox that ended in useful work, and rewrites each one for a public audience. It then files a report that asks for the example to be added here. Self-driving opens the pull request against this website, and a person on the team reviews it and decides whether to publish it.

A code fix must already be public in a merged pull request. Work that needed no code must be something we can describe without internal detail. The scout skips anything from customer conversations, billing, or security work, and it leaves out customer names, internal volumes, and links into our project. You can read the scout's instructions on GitHub.

Try it on your own product

Every report above came from something you can turn on yourself:

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