Learning How To Agent
Introduction & Background # I’ve been using AI tools for codegen for a few years now, but not super heavily. I either use the in-line copilot stuff, which is like LSP on seteroids, or I have gone all the way to the other side of full on vibecoding with Windsurf. That’s been fun enough, but not super fulfilling and at the end of that I either have a simple webapp that does what I want but I don’t understand, or else a half-broken thing I tried to understand but couldn’t prompt in the right direction. One Caveat My one caveat with Windsurf, which is a full IDE that I don’t have a lot of comfortable navigation in due to all the Cascade keybindings clobbaring my own keymaps - is that with a HEAVY spec, it’s done will with the Claude models at implementing a real idea I have. It’s closer to vibe-engineering than vibe-coding, but that’s my only instance, the rest of my Windsurf usage is “make me a cool app - no mistakes” This year it feels like some tools exploded and I mentioned this in New…