Comment by nonethewiser

I've found it to do quite well if you form a detailed design doc and you state all your implementation detail opinions up front. Architecture, major third party libraries, technologies, etc. But it can generate a lot of code very fast - it's hard to steer everything. There is certainly a tradeoff between speed and control. At one end, if you want to specify how every single line is written then yeah, it's going to be faster if you do it yourself. On the other hand, if you want to let it make more assumptions on implementation details, it can go extremely fast.

If your end goal is to produce some usable product, then the implementation details matter less. Does it work? Yes? OK then maybe dont wrestle with the agent over specific libraries or coding patterns.