Not looking to stir up trouble here, but genuinely asking. The first version of my app was mostly put together with prompts, and it took about four hours to have a functional demo. Then came three weeks of fixing bugs that the prompt-based approach caused, like data type mismatches, weird behavior when form fields were empty, etc.
I suppose adding up total time spent, it may not have been quicker than if I had written the whole thing from scratch, though it certainly felt quick at the time because early success was very tangible.
It passed all the tests it could and then broke a piece of functionality that didn t seem to have any test coverage but certainly had manual QA. It was clean code. That was the issue, clean code that was also confident is hard to be suspicious of when compared to code that doesn t look good at all.
Now I have agents document all the things they cannot test before I allow them near anything that s core. Slow process, but no more surprises.
Over the past 24 hours, my agent IDE session has been repeatedly crashing right in the middle of writing code.
The generation will start, run for a few seconds, and then the workspace completely drops or terminates the agent process, forcing a full IDE restart just to continue.
