Agent Builds Toolkit in 38 Minutes
Lopsided_Cash232 · reddit · 2026-07-18
The author tasked an agent on an empty repository to "make something useful" within 24 hours. In roughly 38 minutes, it completed a project named Project PlainSpeak, costing about $0.17, utilizing 136 API requests, around 12.65 million tokens, and making 11 commits.
The output is a Python toolkit featuring a CLI, 6 readability calculations, rule-based obstacle detection, glossary suggestions, HTML/JSON outputs, and documentation examples. The author notes it claims to have a 142-test suite. While they haven't run the full test suite yet, they confirmed that pyproject.toml defines an installable Python 3.10+ package and the plainspeak CLI.
The value of this post lies in providing a reproducible, extremely low-cost sample of agentic development, rather than just talking about "AI writing code."
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