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I am now releasing software for projects that have spent years on the back-burner. From my perspective, agent loops have been a success. It makes the impractical pipe-dream doable.

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Yeah, I have a never ending need of things I could easily make myself I I could set aside 7-10 hours to plan it out, develop and troubleshoot but are also low priority enough that they sit on the back burner perpetually.

Now these things are being made. I can justify spending 5-10 minutes on something without being upset if AI can't solve the problem yet.

And if not, I'll try again in 6 months. These aren't time sensitive problems to begin with or they wouldn't be rotting on the back burner in the first place.

That’s completely ignoring the point of the person you are responding to. They weren’t talking about small greenfield projects.

Agent loops also enables the "hard discipline" of making sure all of the tests are written, documentation is up to date, specs are explicitly documented, etc. Stuff that often gets dropped/deprioritized due to time pressure & exhaustion. Gains from automation applies to greenfield & complex legacy projects.

Well that’s more on topic as a response to the original poster. Still not really in keeping with the original thread question though of show me the beef.

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