it's not just writing code.

And maybe child is too simplistic of an analogy. It's more like working with a savant.

The type of thing you can tell AI to do is like this: You tell it to code a website... it does it, but you don't like the pattern.

Say, "use functional programming", "use camel-case" don't use this pattern, don't use that. And then it does it. You can leave it in the agent file and those instructions become burned into it forever.