Comment by voidhorse
9 hours ago
> The agent harnesses are an interesting topic. I believe they have large teams shipping a ton of changes weekly. In that environment, is it realistic to expect rock solid software with such a feature set to be developed in a few months and shipped to 10M users?
Yes, the whole argument is that LLMs make shipping quality software at scale in months possible. You're arguing out of two sides of your mouth now. On the one hand, agents have enabled you to build a bullet-proof high quality app in a few months as a solo dev. On the other hand it's supposedly unreasonable to expect a team of engineers with lots of funding and lots of expertise to use those same LLMs to build high quality software in a few months.
The main difference is you are still working in a vacuum and the harness teams have actually shipped to users. Once you do that, you face significantly more challenges than you do tinkering in isolation. Don't claim a methodology works until you've actually proven so. "My personal closed source pet project that no one but me has ever seen works" is not convincing evidence. My pet dragon who is definitely real but that I can't show anyone else agrees.
> the one hand, agents have enabled you to build a bullet-proof high quality app in a few months as a solo dev. On the other hand it's supposedly unreasonable to expect a team of engineers with lots of funding and lots of expertise to use those same LLMs to build high quality software in a few months
I think you understand well that there is a major difference between developing a mobile app solo and 10-20 people working on a coding agent harness of vastly larger scope.
I don't intent to prove anything to you. I am telling you that it works for my mobile app development. Your arguments to the contrary are rather weak.