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Comment by d_watt

5 months ago

That's the point of the experiment I'm doing, what it takes to get these things to be able to generate all the code, and I'm just directing.

I literally have not written a line of code. The AI agent configures the build systems. It executes the `go install` command. It configures the infrastructure via terraform.

It takes a lot of reading of the code that's generated to see what I agree with or not, and redirecting refactorings. Understanding how to describe problem statements that are translated into design docs that are translated into task lists. It's still a lot of knowledge work on how to build software. But now I can do the coding that might have taken a day from those plans in 20 minutes.

Regarding startups, there's nothing here I'm doing that isn't just learning the tools of agentic coding. The business here might be advising people on how to do it themselves.