# A Framework for Running Long-Running AI Coding Agents at Scale

DevFeed: [A Framework for Running Long-Running AI Coding Agents at Scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/this-doordash-engineer-built-ai-agents-that-run-for-days-18136.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hungrymindsdev.substack.com/p/this-doordash-engineer-built-ai-agents>)

Author: Alexandre Zajac

Published: 2026-06-29T15:31:27Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hungry Minds](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hungry-minds.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Loop Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/loop-engineering.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [context window](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context-window.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [claude](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [context-window](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-window.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/implementation.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [retry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retry.md>)

## AI overview

A DoorDash engineer describes a framework for using AI coding agents on multi-thousand-line features. It separates research, planning, implementation, and review, while using progress files, retryable loops, and deterministic orchestration to preserve continuity across context windows.

## Source excerpt

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