Agent Flywheel in practice: deleting 21k lines of code to get back on track
doodlestein · x · 2026-08-26
A developer shared a success story applying the "Agent Flywheel" system. By combining updated skills, specific prompts, and investing time in writing clear READMEs, the practitioner successfully unstuck their project and deleted 21,457 lines of redundant code (referred to as "process porn").
The case demonstrates that with the right methodology, tools, and skills—augmented by frontier models—it is possible to get a project's "flywheel" spinning again within days, regardless of how stuck it was.
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