I'm as nerdy as they come (my current project is the fourth compiler I've worked on), and I absolutely love this new way of working. There's a lot more time spent in discussion with the agent (an extremely frustrating discussion, to be fair). All of a sudden, there's an extremely high payoff to investing in good fundamentals (namely, clarity of requirements, good tools, etc.), which are the things I want to invest in anyway! If you get these fundamentals right, you can let the agent rip and produce hundreds of PRs that are correct, or create workflows that are actually not slop or ship code that is, while not yet as high quality as if you wrote it manually, quite close, at easily five times the speed.

And throughout this, if I'm ever curious about how the ideas relate to some other topic, I can just ask the agent, "Are we designing XYZ right now? Categorically, is it this?" Lots of really cool discussions to be had.

I might be less enthusiastic if I was just shipping CSS changes and the like.