# Agentic Coding Workflows
DATE: undated field report
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# Agentic Coding Workflows: A Field Report
I am currently running a series of experiments to see if an autonomous AI agent can build a
production-ready SaaS MVP in under 48 hours without human intervention. The results are... complex.
The promise of "Agentic Coding" (using tools like Devin, Cursor, or custom ReAct loops) is that software
development becomes a higher-level activity. Instead of writing functions, you write intents. You become
the Architect, and the Agent becomes the builder.
## Where Agents Excel
Scaffolding and Boilerplate. Agents are phenomenal at the "boring" parts of coding.
Setting up a Next.js project, configuring Tailwind, writing standard CRUD API endpoints.
Tasks like these used to take me an afternoon and now take minutes.
The agent doesn't get bored and doesn't make typos.
## Where Agents Need a Human
Context Windows and Business Logic. The moment the complexity of the application exceeds
the agent's context window, things fall apart. I've watched agents "hallucinate" APIs that don't exist
because they confused two different libraries. I've seen them get stuck in infinite loops trying to fix
a bug, only to introduce three more.
The "Failure Mode" of an agent is distinct. It doesn't just stop. It confidently destroys your codebase.
One wrong command, and it deletes your database migration history because it thought it was helping.
## The Verdict (So Far)
We are not yet at the point of "autonomous software engineers." But we are absolutely at the point of
a real step change in developer productivity.
Used correctly, as a pair programmer that handles the grunt work while you
handle the architecture, agents are the most powerful tool I've seen
since I started writing code in 2007. But you can't
take your hands off the wheel.