I Have an AI Agent That Tests My Own Product Every 3 Hours

The Dogfooding Problem for Solo Developers "Eat your own dog food" is good advice. Use your own product. Find the bugs your users find. Feel the pain before they do. In practice, here's what actually happens: You use it heavily right after launch Development takes over and you stop touching it You check it as a developer, not as a user — you know all the right paths "It works" becomes the bar, and rough UX slips through I build and maintain a web app solo. At some point I realized: I hadn't actually used it as a user in weeks. I'd been shipping features, but not experiencing the product. So I did something that felt slightly absurd: I gave the job to an AI agent. Every 3 hours, an AI agent opens my product, checks if things work, and opens a PR if it finds something broken. Here's how it works, what it found, and what it can't do. The Setup Three components: Component What it does AI Agent (Claude) Decides what to check, interprets results, writes fixes MCP Server Exposes my app's API