You seem to work a lot like how I do. If that is being stupid, then well, count me in too. To be honest, if I had to go through all the work of planning, scope, escalation criteria, etc., then I would probably be better off just writing the damn code myself at that point.
i see lots of posts like stripes minion where they just type a feature into slack chat and agent goes and does it. That doesnt make any sense to me.