What you think is "terribly Ineffcient" can be also considered "perfectly acceptable and resilient to systemic shocks".
Hyperfixation on efficiency gains is a disease of modern society.
Copy pasting ai code from the browser is not perfectly acceptable. The only reason to do it is because you haven’t tried agents. It shows a lack of imagination and a willingness to settle for inferiority.
“Terrible inefficient workflows”, like having to prompt Claude to change one or two words in a file rather than just manually editing it, because it gets confused when the file changes out from under it and will later overwrite the changes?