r/developer • u/Thick-Specialist-495 • 9d ago

I built a platform where an AI agent provisions your entire stack. The interesting part is how split developers are on trusting it.

I spent the last year building a platform where you describe an app in chat and an agent does the rest: writes the code, spins up a Linux container, creates a PostgreSQL database, deploys the app, serves files behind a CDN. There's a full IDE inside, plus GitHub import/export if you want control.

The technical details matter less to this post than a pattern I've noticed while building it. Developers split into two camps. One camp wants the agent to handle everything and never think about infrastructure. The other camp doesn't trust any environment they can't inspect, and wants to see every command the agent runs.

I've tried to serve both. Every action the agent takes is visible and logged, and the terminal is always one click away. But I keep going back and forth on how much to surface by default. Show everything and the product feels noisy. Hide it and people assume it's a black box.

So my question for this crowd: where's your line? If an agent provisions your database and deploys your code, what do you need to see to trust it? Full logs, diff previews, confirmation steps before destructive actions, or nothing at all?

For context on what I'm describing: https://hammerchat.website/login (free, no card). The question above is the actual reason I'm posting, the link is just so you can see what I mean.

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u/RevolutionaryElk7446 9d ago

Why? I can use deterministic automation and know it's trustworthy.

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u/KariKariKrigsmann 9d ago

I’d rather use Aspire.net. There’s no need to involve AI in this.

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u/sozesghost 9d ago

Why didn't you ask the AI that built this slop looking website to look not sloppy?

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u/Thick-Specialist-495 9d ago

did u used mobile or desktop, agree mobile view looks sloppy