I was very, very skeptic. Then a couple of weeks ago I started with Atlassian's Rovo Dev CLI (Sonnet 4) and immediately managed to build and finish a couple of projects. I learned a lot and for sure having experience, decide on stack an architecture is a huge benefit for "guiding" an agentic coding app. I'm not sure if anyone can build and maintain a project without having at least some skills, but If you are an experienced developer, this is kind of magic.
I also appreciate the common best practice to write a requirements document in Markdown before letting the agent start. AWS' kiro.dev is really nice in separating the planning stage from the execution stage but you can use almost any "chatbot" even ChatGPT for that stage. If you suffer from ADHD or lose focus easily, this is key. Even if you decide to finish some steps manually.
It doesn't really matter if you use Claude Code (with Claude LLM), Rovo Dev CLI, Kiro, Opencode, gemini-cli, whatever. Pick the ones that offer daily free tokens and try it out. And no, they will almost never complete without any error. But just copy+paste the error to the prompt or ask some nasty questions ("Did you really implement deduplication and caching?") and usually the agent magically sees the issues and starts to fix it.
I also appreciate the common best practice to write a requirements document in Markdown before letting the agent start. AWS' kiro.dev is really nice in separating the planning stage from the execution stage but you can use almost any "chatbot" even ChatGPT for that stage. If you suffer from ADHD or lose focus easily, this is key. Even if you decide to finish some steps manually.
It doesn't really matter if you use Claude Code (with Claude LLM), Rovo Dev CLI, Kiro, Opencode, gemini-cli, whatever. Pick the ones that offer daily free tokens and try it out. And no, they will almost never complete without any error. But just copy+paste the error to the prompt or ask some nasty questions ("Did you really implement deduplication and caching?") and usually the agent magically sees the issues and starts to fix it.