Symfony Bundle Skeleton Refresh Grows Into a New Generator Built by AI Agents

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A Symfony developer set out to modernize the bundle skeleton created by a Symfony core team member, which had not been updated since November 2024. Since then, Symfony 7.4 LTS, 8.0 and 8.1 had been released, and the generator still declared support for older versions and lacked testing, CI and QA tooling. Instead of a minor refresh, the project turned into a completely new generator, with the code written by AI agents working in parallel git worktrees while the author made decisions and reviewed results. The work was coordinated through a planning phase, specialized agents for different components, an integration step to merge branches, and independent reviewers who checked for problems. The author has disclosed the AI involvement openly in the commit history.

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