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…