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>build your own lightsaber

I think this is the best way of putting it I've heard to date. I started building one just to know what's happening under the hood when I use an off-the-shelf one, but it's actually so straightforward that now I'm adding features I want. I can add them faster than a whole team of developers on a "real" product can add them - because they have a bigger audience.

The other takeaway is that agents are fantastically simple.

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Agreed, and it's actually how I've been thinking about it, but it's also straight from the article, so can't claim credit. But it was fun to see it put into words by someone else.

And yeah, the LLM does so much of the lifting that the agent part is really surprisingly simple. It was really a revelation when I started working on mine.

I also started building my own, it's fun and you get far quickly.

I'm now experimenting with letting the agent generate its own source code from a specification (currently generating 9K lines of Python code (3K of implementation, 6K of tests) from 1.5K lines in specifications (https://alejo.ch/3hi).

Just reading through your docs, and feeling inspired. What are you spending, token-wise? Order of magnitude.

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