The primary barrier to effective coding agent use is the instinct to micromanage. Developers who struggle with agents are those who try to control every step rather than delegating and revising afterward. The productive workflow is to let agents work differently than you would, accept the output, then revise — treating agent interaction as asynchronous delegation rather than real-time pair programming. ## Key Insight The control-vs-delegation tension mirrors management skill: effective agent users behave more like managers who delegate and review than engineers who dictate implementation. Post-hoc revision produces better results than real-time micromanagement because it preserves agent autonomy while maintaining human quality standards. ## Source - <https://x.com/hesamation/status/2022421690626547800/?s=12&rw_tt_thread=True> - [[the people who struggle with coding agents are those who...]] ## Related - [[Cognitive Debt in AI Generated Code]] - [[Multi Agent Setup Iteration as Self Improving Loop Requirement]]