Sometimes I think that I must be a complete low IQ imbecile, because for me, even using Fable, code is still a pretty much hands-on affair. Not in the sense of actually writing lines of code (I still like to create things like structs, interfaces, traits, as a form of prompting, natural language for that kind of stuff is actually more verbose and way less precise).

But I hate waste, I hate dead code, I hate byzantine constructions and reinventing the wheel, and thus, most of the time, I keep a close eye on reasoning traces, frequently interrupt and steer the agent, and prefer to review the diffs as they are done in very small increments.

And everytime I am lazy, and try to just vibe code stuff, inevitably the old "all abstractions are leaky" adage rear its ugly head and I see myself reviewing a fucking giant delta and asking the agent: "but, why? when you could just..."

It is not possible that all those famous people are wrong and I am right. If my results when giving full autonomy to an agent are usually sub-optimal under my point of view, well, what if the problem is with MY point of view?

I am starting to get depressed thinking that maybe I have some personality flaw that will prevent me from truly reaping the fruits of this new age. At one side I think it is absurdly fantastic that I have this pair programmer so productive and with fantastic recall, but on the other side, I can't really relinquish control, I feel like it can't build a coherent architecture, I am still attached to the idea that engineering principles like low coupling, information hiding, high cohesion, low cyclomatic complexity, modularity, sound typing are important, and maybe I am just a fucking old curmudgeon that can't get up with the times.