I wanted to test how far AI coding tools could take a production project. Not a prototype. A social media management platform with 12 first-party API integrations, multi-tenant auth, encrypted credential storage, background job processing, approval workflows, and a unified inbox. The scope would normally keep a solo developer busy for the better part of a year. I shipped it in 3 weeks. Before writing any code, I spen…
That was an interesting article. I have a few questions about the workflow. 1. You mentioned developing tasks in parallel—how many agents were you actually running at the same time? Did you ever reach a point where, even if you increased the degree of parallelism, merging and reviews became the bottleneck, and increasing the number further didn’t speed things up? 2. I really relate to the idea of “80% of features in…
First I triggered all work streams per layer and brought them to a level of completion I was happy with. Then you merge one after another (challenge in github with the @codex the implementation and rebases when you move to the next work stream.
This is roughly how it looked like:
Layer 0 - Project Scaffolding
Layer 1 — Core Features Stream A — Content Pipeline Stream B — Social Platform Providers Stream C — Media Library Stream D — Notification System Stream E — Settings UI
T-0.1 (Scaffolding)
│
T-0.2 (Core Models + Auth)
│
┌───────────────────┼───────────────────┬──────────────┐
│ │ │ │
Stream A Stream B Stream C Stream D
(Content) (Providers) (Media) (Notifs)
│ │ │ │
T-1A.1 Composer T-1B.1 FB/IG/LI T-1C.1 Library T-1D.1 Engine
│ T-1B.2 Others │ │
T-1A.2 Calendar │ │ Stream E
│ │ │ T-1E.1 Settings UI
T-1A.3 Publisher ◄──────┘ │
│ │
└──────────◄───────────────────────────┘
(Publisher needs providers + media processing)
Layer 1 complete
│
┌───────────┼───────────┬──────────────┐
│ │ │ │
Stream F Stream G Stream H Stream I
(Approval (Inbox) (Calendar+ (Onboarding)
+ Portal) Composer
│ enhance)
T-2F.1 Approval
│
T-2F.2 Portal
Additionally, your token usage is very high since you are having so many agent do work at the same time, hence I very often reached my claude session token limits and had to wait for the next session to begin (I do have the 5x Max plan)