Comment by timr

> I definitely do agree with this; and I would add that at that point you can really make do with tab-completion and not a full agent workflow. I used this successfully even back in 2021-2022 with Copilot.

Sure. The thing that "agents" add to this -- and I think it's actually really valuable -- is the ability to run their own output and fix the bugs.

Yesterday I pointed an agent at a controller, asked it to write a test suite (with some core requirements of what exactly to test), and then I reviewed the content of the tests for sanity. Then I pointed another agent at the output of that code, and told it to run the tests and fix the bugs.

It got stuck once or twice, requiring me to say "don't do that" and/or change a few lines of code, but overall I had a much more comprehensive test suite than I ever would have written, in about 15 minutes of drinking coffee.