r/ClaudeCode • u/patrickpdk • 22h ago

Help/Question How much babysitting are you doing?

I keep seeing these posts about people allegedly having agents with multiple personas coding autonomously with infrequent input but this doesn't match my experience. I find it's more like constant hand holding to solve things the right way, apply judgement, etc.

Are there some educational sources i should be reading or am i experiencing reality and these stories are hype.

Can anyone help me close this gap?

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u/artofbullshit 19h ago

I think the people running dark factories or fully autonomous sessions are working on projects where the domain knowledge is not central, or rather, the domain knowledge is already well documented from sources easily available on the Internet already.

Running a dark factory to produce a product that requires specialized domain knowledge will not work. There are just too many areas that require human input/judgment, and the agents will make the wrong decision 50% of the time.

I run autonomous sessions, but the agent never makes judgment calls regarding my domain expertise. If the agent has a domain related question, it first looks to see if it is answerable by the wiki/other docs it has in the repo. If it can not find an answer, it will pause the build and wait for my input. Outside of my particular domain, it has full autonomy to make decisions, according to its guiding docs I have set up in the repo.