Why it matters
Performance issues silently pile up in mature codebases. Teams know things could be faster, but can never justify pausing feature work to investigate. You have to put engineers on it just to find out if there's something worth fixing, and the effort is completely unpredictable: it could take an hour or three weeks. In
My takeaway: From Blind Spots to Merged PRs: Continuous Agentic Performance Optimization - May Walter, Hud is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.