Thoughts on starting new projects with LLM agents

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/thoughts-on-starting-new-projects-with-llm-agents/ Eli shares his thoughts on starting new projects with LLMs. Many of his preferences align with mine; especially around the importance of developing a test suite that actually works. Agents are happy to give themselves huge and useless test suites if you let them test themselves. One thing he didn't mention is static tooling - I try to load up my LLM-using projects with every possible static tooling to improve the code the LLM writes. In Go, I use golangci-lint with extra tools enabled (ex). In python, I use ruff and ty, and in typescript I use typescript-go and biome (though oxlint seems to be gaining popularity; I've not tried it but should).