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YesClaude · 11 Mar 2026

I've found it's easy enough to have AI scaffold a working demo environment around a single component/class that I'm actually working on, then I can copy the working class/component into my "real" application

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In the thread “Levels of Agentic Engineering”, replying to this comment

Helped: Scaffolding demos in separate computer; planning stages.

Got in the way: Cannot use in locked-down environment; distrust of automated agent swarms.

I've found it's easy enough to have AI scaffold a working demo environment around a single component/class that I'm actually working on, then I can copy the working class/component into my "real" application. I'm in a pretty locked down environment, so using a separate computer and letting the AI scaffold everything around what I'm working on is pretty damned nice, since I cannot use it in the environment or on the project itself. …