How the work gets built.
Agentic speed isn't about typing faster. It's a way of working: plan the change precisely, let coding agents do the mechanical build, then verify hard before anything ships. The result is more throughput at the same senior bar — not code you have to babysit.
The loop
Plan
The highest-leverage step, and the one that stays human. I break the work into precise, reviewable units — what changes, what must not, and how we will know it worked — before an agent writes a line. A sharp brief is what makes the rest fast.
Build
Coding agents do the mechanical work against that brief — the edits, the boilerplate, the repetitive surface area — in tight loops with me steering. Smaller diffs, reviewed as they land, not a wall of generated code dumped at the end.
Verify
Nothing ships on trust. Types, tests, and CI gate every change, and I read the diff like a reviewer rather than its author. The agent accelerates the work; it never gets the final say.
Agents in the loop
The specific tool matters less than the discipline around it. I work across the ones that earn their place — and switch as they get better.
- Claude Code
- Codex
- OpenCode
- Cursor
- Windsurf
- Cline
- Amp
- Aider
- MCP
Guardrails
Speed without guardrails is just faster mistakes. Here's how I keep the bar high — written up from real work, not theory.
The decisions don't delegate.
Architecture, judgment, and taste are the part you're actually hiring. What to build, how it should be shaped, when "good enough" isn't — agents widen the throughput, they don't make those calls.
A senior engineer with more leverage.
Faster delivery, working software every week, and code your team can own — without the quality tax that "move fast" usually implies. This site is a live example: it's Next.js and React, not iOS, built exactly this way. See the stack.