I have the opinion it was well worth it for many reasons.
Not only the agents can complete trivial tasks on their own, leaving us just with reviewing (and often just focusing on the harnessing), but the new setup is very good for onboarding technical and non-technical staff: you can ask any question about both the product or its architecture or decisions.
Everything's documented/harnessed/E2Ed, etc.
Doing all of this work has much improved the codebase in general, proper tests, documentation and design documents do make a difference per se, and it further compounds with LLMs.
Which is my point in any case: if you start a new project just by prompting trivialities it will go off rail and create soups. But if you work on an established and well scaffolded project, the chances of going off rails and creating soups is very small.
And thus my conclusion: just fork existing projects that already do many of the things you need (plenty of them from compilers to native applications to anything really), focus on the scaffolding and understanding the project, then start iterating by adding features, examples and keeping the hygiene high.
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I have the opinion it was well worth it for many reasons.
Not only the agents can complete trivial tasks on their own, leaving us just with reviewing (and often just focusing on the harnessing), but the new setup is very good for onboarding technical and non-technical staff: you can ask any question about both the product or its architecture or decisions.
Everything's documented/harnessed/E2Ed, etc.
Doing all of this work has much improved the codebase in general, proper tests, documentation and design documents do make a difference per se, and it further compounds with LLMs.
Which is my point in any case: if you start a new project just by prompting trivialities it will go off rail and create soups. But if you work on an established and well scaffolded project, the chances of going off rails and creating soups is very small.
And thus my conclusion: just fork existing projects that already do many of the things you need (plenty of them from compilers to native applications to anything really), focus on the scaffolding and understanding the project, then start iterating by adding features, examples and keeping the hygiene high.