Designing an Autonomous Development Team
When using LLMs for software development, it is easy and natural to use a single agent to inspect the codebase, make a plan, write some code, run tests, and open a pull request. This works surprisingly well, but it also collapses an entire software development process into one conversation. A real development team usually has a few more boundaries. Someone thinks through the design. Someone implements it. Someone else reviews the implementation. When something is unclear, we communicate the problem and resolve it rather than silently making assumptions. ...