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Building something from scratch where there are plenty of examples public on github seems to be the easiest case. Put these agents on a real existing codebase and ask them to fix a bug and they become useless.

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I think this would vary a lot between "real" code basis. I have had a lot of success when using somewhat stricter frameworks, with typed interfaces, and requiring well defined unit tests, and modules which ecapsulate a lot of logic.

Basically like Java Spring Boot or NestJS type projects.

I like that skeptical people always first ask for examples, then when someone gives them, they immediately switch to “well, sure, but that one is easy!”

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