Comment by barnabee

I’m currently experimenting (alongside working as usual) with a reasonably non-trivial rust project that will be designed “project managed”[0], built, and tested by LLM agents (mostly Claude, via OpenCode) based on me providing high level requirements and then prompting it to complete things, as well as course correcting (rule: I don’t edit the code, specifications, or tasks directly).

It’s too early to tell how it will work out but things are going better than I expected. It’s probably 20% built after a couple of days, in which I’ve mostly done other work, and it’s working for quite long periods without input from me.

When I do have to provide input, the prompt is often just “Continue working according to the project standards and rules”.

I have no idea if it’ll meet the requirements. I didn’t expect it to get this far, but a month or two ago I didn’t think the chances were high enough to even make it worth trying.

[0] I asked it to create additional documentation for project standards and rules to refer to only when needed (referenced from AGENTS.md). This included git workflow, maintaining a set of specifications, and an overall ROADMAP.md as well TASKS.md (detailed next steps from the roadmap) and STATUS.md (status of each of the tasks).