This is very good insight, the likes of which I’ve needed; thank you. Your workflow is moderately more complex and definitely less “agentic” than I’d expected/hoped but it’s absolutely not out of line with the kind of complexity I’m willing to tackle nor what I’d personally expect from pairing with or instructing a knowledgeable junior-to-mid level developer/engineer.
Totally. It’s actually an interesting philosophical question: how much can we expect at different levels of precision in requirements, and when is code itself the most efficient way to be precise? I definitely feel my communication limits more with this workflow, and often feel like “well, that’s a fair, totally wrong, but fair interpretation.”
Claude has the added benefit that you can yell at it, and it won’t hold it against you. You know, speaking of pairing with a junior dev.
