Using AI agents in long-lived software projects (opens in new tab)

You read the story a hundred times: “I told Codex (or Claude, or Antigravity, etc.) to build me a full app to run my business, and 30 minutes later, it’s done”. These types of stories usually celebrate the new ecosystem and the ability to build complex systems without having to dive into the details.The benchmarks celebrate "one-shotting" entire applications, as if that's the relevant metric. I think this is the wrong framing entirely. Mostly because I care very little about disposable softwa...