Comment by locknitpicker

> It sounds like you’re still writing code by hand and reading and reviewing code.

This is such a naive, baseless opinion.

Nowadays any AI coding assistant service supports or can be used with sub-agent orchestration frameworks.

If you are in the business of software factories, you can use the cheapest models and even local models to handle some if not all tasks in the orchestration chain.

Adding tests or executing tests (unit, integration, UI, you name it) doesn't require a cutting edge frontier model. Neither does refactoring. Neither does identifying call stacks. Neither does planning a changeset.

You have your specialized subagents, you put together a small orchestrator subagent that handles feedback loops and handoffs,and you throw it at tasks.

For the past couple of months, most of the code I write is not code per se, it's subtask orchestrators. And unlike the old "only Opus is passable" days, the cheapest models do get the job done.