Comment by skybrian
1 day ago
> see first-hand that large, complex projects that used to take them weeks/months can now be completed by agents with a prompt
Really? I start with a conversation for maybe 5 turns or so, where I ask it what would need to change, what the API might be, any database schema changes, URL schemes, and so on, and finally ask it to break it down into commits. Then I let it go, implementing 3-10 commits at a time via subagents. It usually gets the UI somewhat wrong, so there are followups to fix it. This is with Sol and Luna subagents.
Is that what other people see?
Try using Astra, Fable, Opus.
Sol 6.1 is really good too though
I use Fable and Opus exclusively and have the exact same experience.
A lot of other people are not just asking for features, they are asking for products or new programming languages or new web browsers or a robot that can wash the dishes and so on. They tell the agent to help write the plan and figure out the questions they aren't even thinking to ask, the tasks they aren't even thinking to plan, and so on.
Their input is just working on the "plan" itself, the spec or the request, iteratively, and so on, while the AI works fulltime on automating the delivery of that thing, improving the systems that are delivering that thing, asking questions about what exactly is being built and how it should work, and so on.
A lot of the difference in how people experience AI is ambition and scope and how much you just tell the AI to 'automate your factory factory' in Factorio terms vs 'hand mine the coal and hand-craft the science packs' in Factorio terms.
EG, if you don't know how you'd speed up the process of building a web browser from scratch (compared to the current way you've been working with agents), you would ask your agent to help you figure it out and design that process itself, rather than just try to do what you're currently doing on a larger scale. You'd literally prompt "how can we make it realistic to build a whole browser when I've been just sitting here planning small changes with you" and then let it act on its response.