I am a day late to this conversation: while I sometimes find full-on agent-first based coding assistants like Claude Code, Google Antigravity, OpenAI codex, etc. useful, I think it is a mistake giving away too much of our autonomy as developers to default to agent-first.
I like to start any new code, or modification task by writing out design and possible implementation notes. I have a few simple command line tools that will combine one of my hand crafted notes files with code into one big beautiful prompt, submit it as a one-shot request. Then I review and use the results, doing an iteration if required.
Absolutely there are times when I feel that first dropping into something like Antigravity or Claude Code is the best approach, but I don’t want that as my default.
I like to start any new code, or modification task by writing out design and possible implementation notes. I have a few simple command line tools that will combine one of my hand crafted notes files with code into one big beautiful prompt, submit it as a one-shot request. Then I review and use the results, doing an iteration if required.
Absolutely there are times when I feel that first dropping into something like Antigravity or Claude Code is the best approach, but I don’t want that as my default.