What I Learned Automating Software Development (After 20 Years of Doing It Manually)

In Part 1, I told the story of building OpenLoop — an open-source feedback platform — by emailing an AI agent for 5 days. 160+ emails, $15 in tokens, zero lines of human-written code, and a working product at the end. Now let's talk about what I actually learned. Let's start with the positive, becau

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Jonathan Tavares

📅 Mar 22, 2026·⏱ 8 min read·Dev.to ↗

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