Thoughts on starting new projects with LLM agents

A few months ago I wrote about using LLM agents to help restructuring one of my Python projects. It's worth beginning by saying that the rewrite has been successful by all reasonable measures; I've been able to continue maintaining that project since then without an issue. In this post, I want to discuss another project I've recently completed with significant help from agents: watgo. In this project many things are different; most notably, it's a from-scratch project rather than a rewrite, and it uses a different programming language (Go). This post describes my experience working on the project, and some lessons learned along the way. The process This is a new project, so it required extensive design. I began by iterating on the design with the agent, with a sketch of the API. For this purpose, I recommend using a Markdown file committed into the repository for future reference. After that, I started asking the agent to write CLs [1] in a logical order that made sense to me, keeping…