Agentic coding sorta works for me because you can stop and test each iteration and pinpoint where something has gone wrong.
Example: I ask for a tweak, it give me 20 lines, I test for the intended behavior and keep working on those 20 lines until I'm happy with the reliability/effects of it.
But that loop itself requires a environment in which the final product will be running and takes up most the time in my expirence.
I understand the feasibility of this and sometimes in my lazier moments I skim the code changes and trust automated/manual testing to validate changes, but to just like... you don't even see what it did?
There's also a lot to be said about planning modes which don't write anything, but rather just generate text files to be implemented later when I can watch over the repo more closely.
Not for me, thanks.
But since the loopmaxxers are neither prompting nor reading anymore, it kinda makes sense.