Yes
Outsourcing those to an agent means I don't have to make that tradeoff, which means I can get better quality code
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Helped: Outsourcing small refactorings to agents removes time tradeoffs.
… There are a lot of small refactorings that I wouldn't consider to be worth 15 minutes of my time, so I wouldn't do them. Outsourcing those to an agent means I don't have to make that tradeoff, which means I can get better quality code. But yes, for a lot of my work I'm now a Claude Code / Codex first developer. …