I Could Tell You My AI Has Never Lied. I'm Not Going To.
Seven months, two generations, one production rebuild — and five things I learned that I did not expect to learn.
Five days. No weekends. One relentless experiment. I gave Augment Code’s Intent — the most ambitious multi-agent coding orchestration platform available today — everything I had. I used it to build Lumina Pro, my enterprise-grade evolution of the Lumina AI platform, from the ground up. What emerged from that marathon was not just a product. It was a front-row view into what the future of software development actually looks like — in all its extraordinary, messy, addictive, occasionally chaotic glory. This is not a press release. It is a practitioner’s honest account. I will tell you what astonished me, what frustrated me, what I would do differently, and why — despite everything — I believe Intent represents the next genuine evolutionary step in how human beings build software.