Comment by tiny-automates

i go back and forth on this. when i'm working on something where the hard part is the actual algorithm, say custom scheduling logic or a non-trivial state machine, i need my hands in the code because the implementation is the thinking. but for anything where the complexity is in integration rather than logic, wiring up OAuth flows, writing CRUD endpoints, setting up CI pipelines, agents save me hours and the output is usually fine after one review pass. the "code as thought" argument is real but it applies to maybe 20% of what most of us ship day to day. the other 80% is plumbing where the bottleneck is knowing what to build, not how.