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YesTool not named · 2 May 2026

At that scale, I felt that agentic coding was actually very good at building the initial skeleton

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Helped: Building initial skeletons for high-level library assembly.

… I think I can fairly call myself a specialist at that scale, since I have personally delivered close to 40 projects of that size. At that scale, I felt that agentic coding was actually very good at building the initial skeleton. I do not know what kind of work you usually do, but if your work involves highly precise, low-level tasks, then I can understand why you might feel differently. …