lumatale: a team of agents builds the service almost without me
I wanted to test flowai-workflow on something more or less complex and real, since the usual “home” tasks are too simple, and work tasks are mostly built around ci/cd pipelines.
In the end I decided to make a fully autonomous and cheap process for building services. The service is developed by a group of agents based on flowai-workflow. It plays all the roles itself, including product manager. I sometimes act as hitl, but not too often. Product and architect — sonnet 4.6 from the claude code subscription. Developer and QA — glm 4.6 from the annual z.ai subscription. Right now development speed is bottlenecked by glm limits, bugs, and my own meddling in the sdlc.
The hardest task for the agents turned out to be the PM picking what to do next. I still have to step in here, constantly tweaking it. The agent keeps drifting into easy tasks instead of the right ones, despite every approach I’ve tried. Even mathematical scoring doesn’t help yet. Not that it picks completely meaningless things, but it can, for example, start improving the protection system while the site is for parents and has no general navigation at all.
It became finally clear that flowai-workflow needs several workflows per project: continuous development, tech-debt reduction, ux-debt reduction, housekeeping in docs/requirements/specs, and so on.
But it’s a really cool experience — the thing does something on its own and occasionally, if you’re lucky, tells you what it did. Feels like working with freelancers on a long contract. I try not to interfere with the product at all, except for criticism that anyone could give. Stuff like “the ux of creating a tale is bad” or “english support is needed”.
The main exam for the agents will be a full implementation of monetization. We’ll see how they handle it.
Ah, and the service itself — lumatale.com. It’s a service for creating useful tales for children. At https://lumatale.com/news there will be a developer blog. If only they’d add it to the navigation too :)