Stop micromanaging agents

Summary

One of the challenges pro developers have (compared to non-technical builders I meet) are old habits and workflows that don’t gel with today’s new way of building.

The biggest one is the code review bottleneck. Pro devs and teams grapple with this one every day.

We’re producing code a lot faster than we can review it. The bottleneck happens because we feel we must carefully read every line an AI wrote, because shipping something we haven’t read feels reckless.

Here’s my take: that’s a result of micromanaging your coding agents. We need to get comfortable avoiding that.

You bring AI into your workflow and the first feeling is speed. Then the review bottleneck shows up.

The instinct is to slow down and review harder. That instinct is exactly what’s holding back actual gains from the new way of building.