Comment by kr1shna4garwal

I've been using agentic coding tools for the past year and a half, and the pattern I've observed is that they work best when they're treated as a very fast, very knowledgeable junior developer, not completely as "autonomous engineer".

When I try to give agents broad architectural tasks, they flounder. When I constrain them to small, well-defined units of work within an existing architecture, they can produce clean, correct code surprisingly often.