I am coming to understand that different people want very different things from agentic coding.
That should not be surprising. Not everybody is building the same kind of software. Not everybody works in the same kind of organization. Not everybody is trying to solve the same problem when they open Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, or any other coding agent.
For some people, agentic coding is a way to explore.
They have an idea, but not yet a settled design. They want to try three versions of a UI, poke at an API shape, test a library, or build a throwaway prototype just to learn what the problem really is. That is a valid way to work. I do it too. When I am feeling out the shape of a piece of software, I often need the software to push back on my assumptions.
But that is not the only mode of software development.
