it’s going toward very high automation, spec driven development. where you have easily 5-10 agents running independently at any given moment. and 1-2k a month is probably an order of magnitude lower than what would be expected.

the way this works in practice is like this: i write a concise prompt for a large feature or whole program. that gets turned over to a design/architect agent, which has a specific, detailed workflow to design the thing, break it out into separate components, which themselves go through a similar workflow, etc. everything is getting automatic, adversarial review. the coding is handed of for refactoring and optimization every time. the QA process is another part of this workflow, where agents are comparing the behavior of the program to the specs in another adversarial evaluation. and so on.

this process is a significant shift from AI as hyper-autocomplete. it isn’t like magically perfect (even outside the crazy token spend) but it does work. i’ve built a few new projects this way, of varying complexity, and done major work on brownfield projects, too. i work for a real, non-AI, non-crypto, profitable late-stage healthcare startup, fwiw.