Go slowly. Shoot for a 10% efficiency improvement, not 10x. Go through things as thoroughly as if writing by hand, and don't sacrifice quality for speed. Be aware of when it's confidently taking you down a convoluted path and confidently making up reasons to do so. Always have your skeptic hat on. If something seems off, it probably is. When in doubt, exit the session and start over.

I still find chat interface generally more useful than coding assistant. It allows you to think and discuss higher level about architecture and ideas before jumping into implementation. The feedback loop is way faster because it is higher level and it doesn't have to run through your source tree to answer a question. You can have a high ROI discussion of ideas, architecture,algorithms, and code, before committing to anything. I still do most of my work copying and pasting from the chat interface.

Agents are nice when you have a very specific idea in mind, but I'm not yet hugely fond of them otherwise. IME the feedback loop is too long, they often do things badly, and they are overly confident in their oytput, encouraging cursory reviews and commits of hacked-together work. Sometimes I'll give it an ambitious task just in the off chance that it'll succeed, but with the understanding that if it doesn't get it right the first time, I'll either throw it away completely, or just keep whatever pieces it got right and pitch the rest; it almost never gets it right the second time if it's already started on an ugly approach.

But the main thing is to start small. Beyond one-shotting prototypes, don't expect it to change everything overnight. Focus on the little improvements, don't skip design, and don't sacrifice quality! Over time, these things will add up, and the tools will get better too. A 10% improvement every month gets to be a 10x improvement in (math...). And you'll be a lot better positioned than those who tried to jump onto the 10x train too fast because you'll not have skipped any steps.