Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with AI Agents
Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents
After a self-imposed rule to never hand-write code again, a developer shares six months of experience delegating all coding to AI agents. From managing a dozen parallel agents to building a custom orchestration tool called 'botd', the journey reveals the hidden costs: cognitive overhead, validation challenges, and the difficulty of reviewing unfamiliar diffs. Despite agents passing tests and producing screenshots, the author often discarded their work, realizing that tools can verify correctness but not the worthiness of a change.
The tools could tell me that the change worked. They couldn’t tell me whether it was worth adding to the system.