Comment by cadamsdotcom
8 days ago
Models aren’t reliable, and it’s a bottleneck.
My solution was to write code to force the model down a deterministic path.
It’s open source here: https://codeleash.dev
It’s working! ~200k LOC python/typescript codebase built from scratch as I’ve grown out the framework. I probably wrote 500-1000 lines of that, so ~99.5% written by Claude Code. I commit 10k-30k loc per week, code-reviewed and industrial strength quality (mainly thanks to rigid TDD)
I review every line of code but the TDD enforcement and self-reflection have now put both the process and continual improvement to said process more or less on autopilot.
It’s a software factory - I don’t build software any more, I walk around the machine with a clipboard optimizing and fixing constraints. My job is to input the specs and prompts and give the factory its best chance of producing a high quality result, then QA that for release.
I keep my operational burden minimal by using managed platforms - more info in the framework.
One caveat; I am a solo dev; my cofounder isn’t writing code. So I can’t speak to how it is to be in a team of engineers with this stuff.
My most productive day last week was a net of -10k lines (yes, minus ten thousand).
No AI used.
Congratulations, honestly, but I would not do that for a job.
Metaphorically speaking, you’re out there sprinting on the road while people who’ve made agentic coding work for them are sipping coffee in a limo.
People who haven’t made agentic coding work (but do it anyway) are sipping coffee in the back of a limo that has no brakes. No thanks to that.
You have a 200K LOC repository and you haven’t written 99.5% of it?
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