Once in a blue moon it will not completely fail and might even spit out something impressive at first glance, so some people will latch on to that.
What I am finding most beneficial almost immediately is I have a dedicated Telegram channel that I can post all sorts of unstructured data into and it's automatically routed via LLMS and stored into the right channel and then other agents work on that data to provide me insights. I have a calorie counter, workout capture, reminders, daily diary prompts all up and running as of right now, and honestly it's better than anything I could have bought "off the shelf"
Last night I needed a C# console app to convert PDFs to a sprite sheet. I spent 30 seconds writing the prompt and another 30 seconds later the app was running and successfully converting PDFs on the first try. I then spent about another 2 mins adding a progress bar, tweaking the output format and moving the main logic into a new library.
> First, you should locate yourself on the chart. What stage are you in your AI-assisted coding journey? > Stage 1: Zero or Near-Zero AI: maybe code completions, sometimes ask Chat questions > Stage 2: Coding agent in IDE, permissions turned on. A narrow coding agent in a sidebar asks your permission to run tools. > Stage 3: Agent in IDE, YOLO mode: Trust goes up. You turn off permissions, agent gets wider. > Stage 4: In IDE, wide agent: Your agent gradually grows to fill the screen. Code is just for diffs. > Stage 5: CLI, single agent. YOLO. Diffs scroll by. You may or may not look at them. > Stage 6: CLI, multi-agent, YOLO. You regularly use 3 to 5 parallel instances. You are very fast. > Stage 7: 10+ agents, hand-managed. You are starting to push the limits of hand-management. > Stage 8: Building your own orchestrator. You are on the frontier, automating your workflow. > *If you’re not at least Stage 7, or maybe Stage 6 and very brave, then you will not be able to use Gas Town. You aren’t ready yet.*