True; I have seen the agentic workflow and I would rather not be shaped by it.

It looks like absolute hell of constant distraction making it impossible to reach a state of flow.

For me, autocomplete is an unbearable distraction. I never took to pair programming either.

I've bounced off Claude Code (et al) multiple times.

But very recently I've had some successes. With some bulk bug fixes, it felt the same as scripting data quality fix ups. With proof of concepts in mind, tried 3 very different ideas.

Two quickly flamed out, revealing that I needed to chew on those ideas (a lot) more. If we're measuring how to "fail faster", I'd score these as useful efforts.

But one has been a very unexpected delight to work on. Almost addictive, like coding feels when you're in the flow.

Any way. The current mania for coding harnesses is total insanity. Mario of Pi.dev fame is spot on and far more insightful and articulate than me.