Comment by Antibabelic
8 hours ago
> I would have never gotten to this stage of my dream project without AI tooling.
Why not? People have been writing successful personal projects without LLMs for years.
8 hours ago
> I would have never gotten to this stage of my dream project without AI tooling.
Why not? People have been writing successful personal projects without LLMs for years.
Not grandparent, but I'm in the same boat. I've been dreaming for almost 10 years of building a sort of digital bullet journal. I had some feeble attempts to start, but never got to the point where I could actually use it. Last year I started again, heavily LLM assisted. After 1-2 weeks (this was before agents), I had something usable, from which I could benefit, which wanted to make me improve it more, which made me want to use it more.
By now it's grown to 100k lines of code. I've not read all of them, but I do have a high level overview of the app, I've done several refactorings to keep it maintainable.
This would not have happened without AI agents. I don't have the time, period. With AI agents, I can kickoff a task while I'm going to the park with my kids. Instead of scrolling HN, I look every now and then to what the agent is doing.
How does that work? Are you running the agents on a server? Are you using gnu screen and termux? Can you respond to prompts asking for permission to e.g. run ls or grep?
> By now it's grown to 100k lines of code
Did you add an extra zero there? A journal with 100k lines of code, presumably not counting the framework it is built on?
That doesn't sound correct.