I feel like this article is more written towards non-techies. A decent amount of programmers have touched coding agents, and know it "kind of" does it's job. It's good enough for some tasks... I cannot be arsed to figure out how to edit a graph in Drupal, so I ask Claude. Claude fixes it, and it's not anymore broken than it already was. Win win.
However, that's where I stop my agent usage. I let ~~Claude~~ GLM do the following: - Fix tedious tasks that cost me more to figure out than I care for - Research something I'm not familiar with, and give me the facts it had found, and even then I end up looking at the source myself
This usage pattern is a few months behind the curve. It’s effective at full on feature development now. Keep it fed with plans and it’ll keep implementing, leaving the codebase better than it found it each cycle.