A developer says his agents cut an article from hours to 15 minutes
Sam Hartley says agents running on a Mac mini 24/7 automated his dev workflow, and that writing an article went from 2-3 hours to 10-15 minutes. Self-reported, with no measurement method given.
- Agent or tool
- Agents on a Mac mini
- Topic
- Software Development
- Reported on
- Blog (DEV Community)
- Added
- 2026-10-29
Why it matters
Coding agents are moving from autocomplete to doing whole tasks: reading a codebase, making a plan and changing many files. This case is a concrete example of where that works in practice. It is one of 109 sightings filed under Software Development on Agent Sightings (number 4 by interest), and one of 1 involving Agents on a Mac mini.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Agents on a Mac mini or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Draft an article from these notes and my previous posts in my voice. Mark any claim you could not check.
Tip: Work on a fresh branch, ask for a plan before edits, and review the diff and test results before merging.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog (DEV Community): https://dev.to/samhartley_dev/i-automated-my-entire-dev-workflow-with-ai-agents…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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