This is one thing I actually do with a chatbot, instead of an agent. Voice mode even.

I start talking to it while doing menial tasks like cleaning or doing the laundry, and I discuss the architectual decisions and options until I come to some resemblance of a plan.

Good side of this approach is that I can't just "skim over" or "copy paste" things - either I understood them and can repeat them myself, or I can't. It takes more time than /grill-me and similar approaches, but it's the only approach that doesn't make me want to claw my brain out.

I do the same, but without AI in the loop. Just me and my thoughts while cleaning or doing laundry or going for a run. The best designs and architectural choices and algorithms I've come up with in my carreer were developed and/or refined that way.

It's very enlightening, though it requires being comfortable with being alone with ones thoughts. It seems to me many people are not and need constant distractions and/or dopamine kicks.

+1. I have found that most coding harnesses are too focused on the doing that using a Claude/chatgpt chat gives me a lot better quality.