If however you don't have a clear vision for what this thing should become, the agents start spinning their wheels in no time. It's great to be able to test your ideas like this. Sometimes it doesn't come together, and now the fault is usually with the vision more than the agent's ability to execute

Sure, some of the orchestration of the plan-build-PR pipe could probably be delegated too. But there is something you have that the agent does not and that is *intent*. In this sense the situation with agents is not so different from working with skilled but poorly business-aligned engineers.

Take a capable agent like CC and it's even worse. You put down your half-baked shower thoughts and ask it to make a plan. It's beautiful. You tell it to build. It does, wonderfully. Another agent looks at the PR and you wave it through. Could you go gas town and replace yourself with another agent?

Codex Web is similarly handicapped at the moment, presumably it's a security thing (the repo branch is checked out before the agent starts so it has no access to credentials)

docx linters anyone?

Yeah it's exactly backwards. In our codebase we're having to write documentation because the LLM doesn't do word of mouth. Onboarding LLMs means writing everything down in the repo and that's a huge win for humans also