Yeah, it needs quite some hand holding.

I didn't do much agent coding and had a mix experience.

1. It would build something that was in the spirit of what I wanted, but unusable in practice.

2. It would build something quite useful, but only the public APIs were nice, the deeper code layers would get more and more convoluted.

3. It would built what I wanted and it would have okay-ish code.

However, for 3. I also had to add a custom AGENTS.md, many more code example, extra repos as subtrees, and review any code that had new concepts.

Much more work, but still much less than typing it all by hand.