Comment by wilsonnb3

> This is the part where I simply don't understand the objections people have to coding agents. It seems so self-evidently valuable --- even if you do nothing else with an agent, even if you literally throw all the code away.

It sounds like the blank page problem is a big issue for you, so tools that remove it are a big productivity boost.

Not everyone has the same problems, though. Software development is a very personal endeavor.

Just to be clear, I am not saying that people in category A or category B are better/worse programmers. Just that everyone’s workflow is different so everyone’s experience with tools is also different.

The key is to be empathetic and trust people when they say a tool does or doesn’t work for them. Both sides of the LLM argument tend to assume everyone is like them.