I have personally found huge personal gains on my personal project (where I have complete control) and low-medium significant gains at my job in terms of productivity by REJECTING the 'agentic' workflow premise

msejas on Hacker News

90+ WPM

In the thread “Claims about AI productivity improvements”

Helped: Context files, strict linting/tests, and treating output like manual coding.

Got in the way: Fully agentic autonomous workflows due to silly optimizations and context poisoning.