I don’t really understand how you got that from my post. I can and do drop in to refactor or work on the interesting parts of a project. At every checkpoint where I require a review I can and do make medications by hand.

Are you complaining about code formatters or auto fix linters? What about codegen based on APIs specs? A code agent can do all of those and more. It can do all the boring parts while I get to focus on the interesting bits. It’s great.

Here’s another fantastic use case: have an agent gen the code, think about its prototype, delete, and then rewrite it. I did that on a project with huge success: https://github.com/neurosnap/zmx