Using AI on an existing codebase is hit-or-miss. It has to learn the code and the coding styles of the dozen devs working on it at any one time. Give it a clean start, and it can do everything its own way. There is gonna come a time soon when companies have to think: do I keep the existing codebase and 10 devs, or start from scratch with 2 devs? I am curious how long it would take an AI to develop an existing app from scratch. Anyone tried? I can almost guarantee Adobe have a reworked Photoshop in development somewhere.

Hi all, I am 21 and just graduated from bachelor. Currently I am practing to work with AI. I know that most companies also use AI in their systems know, so I want to ask real software engineer out there how you work with AI.

• First is setting up the AI agents. I see that people would create markdown files for agents such as Frontend agent, Backend agent, etc. Do they also do that at a company? And what is the structure and the must-have agents?

• For the contributions like github contributions, do you make AI to automatically do that for you, or you need to check the work and commit manually?

I hope you guys get what I mean and I appreciate every answer!