So this AI Agent... It is much faster at doing code when given specific instructions. But it keeps loosing context on architecture, and i cant really let it build complex things with interdependencies that build on each other. At times it feels like doing pair programming with a guy who is so crazy fast that im left behind with my head spinning, wondering how we just jumped from a hello world to a working thing that would have taken me ten iterations. And i get a bad feel when i then wonder how is this app doing what it does? because my agent cant explain it, and i would be stupid to believe what it hallucinated because it sounds really solid until you scratch the construction.

At the beginning i was almost euphoric about my new friend, now im sometimes disappointed, sometimes confused, but i am learning to give better, more concise instructions, to do smaller development jumps. It is tempting to set a long haul goal and let it do. But, i think for now, even if it is much faster at the small things, it would be also faster to build a catastrophic spaghetti code nightmare if not used with great care.

If the task is simple, I spend more time telling it what to do than doing it myself. But if the task is complex, I use certain skills/commands and create intermediate files (more than necessary) between each step (analysis, planning, design, workflow, and implementation) and clear the context between each of them. The result is fairly accurate, but not perfect.

My take is, we remain the architects of our code, and AI agents are an excellent tool that we need to master.