agentic coding habits to accelerate your engineering workflow

Coding agents aren't just speeding up development, they're changing what it means to be a senior engineer. I've been coding with agents for a while, watching the tools evolve from rough experiments to something I now rely on daily. Last year I was hand-rolling workflows with Cursor. Now I'm all in on Claude, for better or worse. It's an unusual time to be a software engineer. I'm also very aware of where this sits in my career. As you become more senior, your role shifts from writing code to imp