I prefer small units of work. It really surprises me how fast people have leapt from the 2x speedup (mind blowing level of productivity increase) to full agentic coding without really questioning if it's a good idea.

When I have let Claude loose and vibe coded up hundreds of lines at a time that I have no familiarity with, I viscerally feel how I no longer understand or can maintain the app I've built. If I can't get Claude to do the next change I need, I'm screwed.

I'm very satisfied at the moment to be wielding LLMs as a tool at the individual function / microfeature level and getting a very satisfying productivity improvement.