I work in a large corpo eco system of products across languages that talk to a mess of micro and not so micro services.
Ai tools are rarely useful out of the box in this context. Mostly because they can't fit the ecosystem into their context. I think i would need 10 agents or more for the task.
We have good documentation, but just fitting the documentation into context alongside a microservice is a tight fit. Most services would need one agent for the code (and even then it'd only fit 10% in context), and one for the docs.
Trying to use them without sufficient context, or trying to cram the right 10% into context, takes more effort than just coding the feature, and produces worse results with the worst kind of bugs, subtle ones borne from incorrect assumptions.
If contracting with bigger companies and enterprises, for which I am on 6-12 month projects, and even longer retainers is "greenfield freelancing" then sure. I actually do not really engage in small projects less than that, because they don't pay well.
I work in a large corpo eco system of products across languages that talk to a mess of micro and not so micro services.
Ai tools are rarely useful out of the box in this context. Mostly because they can't fit the ecosystem into their context. I think i would need 10 agents or more for the task.
We have good documentation, but just fitting the documentation into context alongside a microservice is a tight fit. Most services would need one agent for the code (and even then it'd only fit 10% in context), and one for the docs.
Trying to use them without sufficient context, or trying to cram the right 10% into context, takes more effort than just coding the feature, and produces worse results with the worst kind of bugs, subtle ones borne from incorrect assumptions.