7 months building a development OS for AI: what he learned about agents
Shoggophant · reddit · 2026-10-09
A long Reddit post where the author invites the community to share secretly proud AI projects, and describes his own 7-month build: a "development operating system" for AI that turns incomplete ideas into products.
- Agent research methodology: how agents recognize knowledge gaps, investigate properly, and bring evidence-backed understanding back into a project
- Drift in large projects: how agents substitute "sounds right" for "actually defined" across hundreds of sessions; preserving intent and reasoning as plans get decomposed
- Agent onboarding: reliable behavior may depend less on endless hooks/rules and more on teaching agents to navigate layers of understanding — what's settled, what's inferable, when to stop
- Reflection: making AI write better software led him into epistemology, knowledge representation, and authority in autonomous decisions
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