Comment by koreth1
10 hours ago
It actually did automatically break the work up into chunks and launched a bunch of parallel workers to each handle a smaller amount of work. It wasn't doing everything in a single instance.
The problem wasn't that it lost track of which changes it needed to make, so I don't think checking items off a todo list would have helped. I believe it did actually change all the places in the code it should have. It just made the wrong changes sometimes.
But also, the claim I was responding to was, "I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time." If I have to tell it how to organize its work and how to keep track of its progress and how to execute all the smaller chunks of work, then I may get good results, but the tool isn't as magical (for me, anyway) as it seems to be for some other people.
The next line in the comment you’re responding to is
> Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours.
which matches my experience exactly. I consider it to be about as magical as the parent comment is claiming, but I wouldn’t call it totally automatic.