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parastiyesterday at 9:55 PM0 repliesview on HN

We're using Augment Code heavily on a "full rewrite of legacy CRM with 30 years of business rules/data" Laravel project with a team size of 4. Augment kind of became impossible to avoid once we realized the new guy is outpacing the rest of us while posessing almost no knowledge of code and working fully in the business requirements domain, extracting requirements from the customer and passing them to AI, which was encoding them in tests and implementing them in code.

I'm using `auggie` which is their CLI-based agentic tool. (They also have a VS Code integration - that became too slow and hung often the more I used it.) I don't use any prompting tricks, I just kind of steer the agent to the desired outcome by chatting to it, and switch models as needed (Sonnet 4.6 for speed and execution, GPT 5.1 for comprehension and planning).

My favorite recent interaction with Augment was to have one session write a small API and its specification within the old codebase, then have another session implement the API client entirely from the specification. As I discovered edge cases I had the first agent document them in the spec and the second agent read the updated spec and adjust the implementation. That worked much, much better than the usual ad hoc back and forth directly between me and one agent and also created a concise specification that can be tracked in the repo as documentation for humans and context for future agentic work.