Superhuman coding with AI Agents

This is the first post in a series about how to use Agentic coding tools to do amazing things with as little (human) effort as possible.

What is Agentic Coding?

Agentic coding tools like Cursor, Windsurf and Roo Code are crazy powerful tools that just can't be ignored. I've played with these tools a little in the past, but I've never went all in. That changed a few weeks ago when I decided that I have to learn how to use these tools or risk letting auxilius.ai fall behind while others accelerate past us with the power of AI!

I decided to start off with Roo Code because of it's flexibility, extensibility, community and strong agentic programming ability. I'll do a deep dive with Windsurf and Cursor next. I'll also try out Junie, Jetbrains' new AI Coding agent.

What is Roo Code, and Why does it Matter?

Roo Code is a highly extensible, agent based developer "copilot". The big deal is that it can autonomously plan what needs to be done, then implement the plan step-by-step with so-called Boomerang tasks.

Roo leverages MCP (Model Context Protocol) and tool calling to get a lot of its work done such as reading/writing files, interacting with a browser or connecting to any other data sources you might want to configure.

If you use the tools in the right way, you can get a massive speed boost. Here's the Roo documentation.

What I Hope to Build by the End

In this series, I'm going to try to build a time tracking application called Achievo. The plan is to start with a short specification and use that to generate the architecture, data-model, tests, backend and frontend. I'll document my progress and all the pitfalls and gems I discover along the way!

Conclusion

My hope is that we will learn how to be super-human programmers together in this journey. Please follow me to find out what happens.

The next post will be about setting up Roo Code.

Poll

Once I'm done with Roo, what should I do my next blog series on?

Cursor

Windsurf

Junie

Post in the comments and let me know!