In my over a decade of experience as a software engineer, writing code was always a smaller fraction of my time compared to reading code, debating code with colleagues, and wrangling ops. Optimizing for velocity of writing code will inevity lead to spaghetti at best and vaporware at worst.
There is also discussion, ping pong with the agent, exploring parallel paths, quickly experimenting, analyzing code, researching things. A code agent can do more than "write me as much code as possible, go!".
In my over a decade of experience as a software engineer, writing code was always a smaller fraction of my time compared to reading code, debating code with colleagues, and wrangling ops. Optimizing for velocity of writing code will inevity lead to spaghetti at best and vaporware at worst.
There is also discussion, ping pong with the agent, exploring parallel paths, quickly experimenting, analyzing code, researching things. A code agent can do more than "write me as much code as possible, go!".