Here's how the article starts: "Agentic engineering has become so good that it now writes pretty much 100% of my code. And yet I see so many folks trying to solve issues and generating these elaborated charades instead of getting sh*t done."
Here's how it continues:
- I run between 3-8 in parallel
- My agents do git atomic commits, I iterated a lot on the agents file: https://gist.github.com/steipete/d3b9db3fa8eb1d1a692b7656217...
- I currently have 4 OpenAI subs and 1 Anthropic sub, so my overall costs are around 1k/month for basically unlimited tokens.
- My current approach is usually that I start a discussion with codex, I paste in some websites, some ideas, ask it to read code, and we flesh out a new feature together.
- If you do a bigger refactor, codex often stops with a mid-work reply. Queue up continue messages if you wanna go away and just see it done
- When things get hard, prompting and adding some trigger words like “take your time” “comprehensive” “read all code that could be related” “create possible hypothesis” makes codex solve even the trickiest problems.
- My Agent file is currently ~800 lines long and feels like a collection of organizational scar tissue. I didn’t write it, codex did.
It's the same magical incantations and elaborated charades as everyone does. The "the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering" is full of bs and has nothing concrete except a single link to a bunch of incantations for agents. No idea what his actual "website + tauri app + mobile app" is that he build 100% with AI, but depending on actual functionality, after burning $1000 a month on tokens you may actually have a fully functioning app in React + Typescript with little human supervision.