Yes
if I provide proper context and planning up front, it can knock out some fairly impressive stuff
rglover on Hacker News
In the thread “AI agents are starting to eat SaaS”, replying to this comment
Helped: Providing proper context and planning up front.
Got in the way: Letting an agent loose without policing the chat.
… If I give something like Sonnet the docs for my JS framework, it can write code "in it" just fine. It makes the occasional mistake, but if I provide proper context and planning up front, it can knock out some fairly impressive stuff (e.g., helping me to wire up a shipping/logistics dashboard for a new ecom business). That said, this requires me policing the chat (preferred) vs. …