3) I find the process of using a coding agent so mentally taxing. Mental processes to do something are:
– Convert what I want to do into English
– Add context that the LLM will need to do it well
– Wait (and get distracted by something else)
– Get results (context-switch back)
– Figure out what the code output does
– Figure out if that was what we wanted it to do
– Iterate bugs and style
Manual coding is:
– Convert what I want to do into code
– Iterate bugs and style