Comment by pan69
16 days ago
So, can anyone point me to a video where someone is doing this to produce something meaningful, real world stuff? I want to see the requirements being decided upfront, followed by the prompting and then "coding" by the agents. Not some, fly by the seat of my pants and we stop when "it kinda looks okay" thing. E.g. an end-to-end SaaS or whatever non-trivial.
They can't show you because that doesn't exist, and will likely never exist as long as the approach is "just scale LLMs lol".
Once in a blue moon it will not completely fail and might even spit out something impressive at first glance, so some people will latch on to that.
Is this your first-hand experience?
I've replaced a couple of apps that I would have previously paid for with my own vibe coded agent based setup similar to GasTown.
What I am finding most beneficial almost immediately is I have a dedicated Telegram channel that I can post all sorts of unstructured data into and it's automatically routed via LLMS and stored into the right channel and then other agents work on that data to provide me insights. I have a calorie counter, workout capture, reminders, daily diary prompts all up and running as of right now, and honestly it's better than anything I could have bought "off the shelf"
I use AI every day to write stuff.
Last night I needed a C# console app to convert PDFs to a sprite sheet. I spent 30 seconds writing the prompt and another 30 seconds later the app was running and successfully converting PDFs on the first try. I then spent about another 2 mins adding a progress bar, tweaking the output format and moving the main logic into a new library.
Sure. I do that too. However, the article talks about something very different. What you describe is Stage 2 or 3 as listed in the article. I want to see a demonstration of Stage 8 in action.
> First, you should locate yourself on the chart. What stage are you in your AI-assisted coding journey? > Stage 1: Zero or Near-Zero AI: maybe code completions, sometimes ask Chat questions > Stage 2: Coding agent in IDE, permissions turned on. A narrow coding agent in a sidebar asks your permission to run tools. > Stage 3: Agent in IDE, YOLO mode: Trust goes up. You turn off permissions, agent gets wider. > Stage 4: In IDE, wide agent: Your agent gradually grows to fill the screen. Code is just for diffs. > Stage 5: CLI, single agent. YOLO. Diffs scroll by. You may or may not look at them. > Stage 6: CLI, multi-agent, YOLO. You regularly use 3 to 5 parallel instances. You are very fast. > Stage 7: 10+ agents, hand-managed. You are starting to push the limits of hand-management. > Stage 8: Building your own orchestrator. You are on the frontier, automating your workflow. > *If you’re not at least Stage 7, or maybe Stage 6 and very brave, then you will not be able to use Gas Town. You aren’t ready yet.*