You Still Need to Think

As coding agents become more capable and long-running, they don’t remove the human job of thinking. Someone still has to direct the work—set goals, choose constraints, and judge outputs.

Everyone seems to recognize this in the abstract. But nobody seems to talk much about how the product shape fundamentally shifts the type of thinking required to write code.

I’d argue that seemingly minor UX differences between different coding agents end up having a massive impact on how users spend their “thinking budget.”

You Still Need to Think

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You Still Need to Think

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