> Are you saying this from experience?

Yes. I mostly work on Quarkus microservices and use cursor with auto agent mode.

> we wouldn't give an AI some vague requirements and ask it to build something > we would discuss as a team

seems like a reasonable workflow. It's the polar opposite of what was written in the blog post. That is the usual, easy way people use agents and what I think is the wrong path. May I also ask what language and/or framework you work with where so much context works good enough?

> Asking AI to explain code and help me learn how it works means I can pick up new systems significantly quicker.

Summarization is generaly a great task for LLMs