Hands Off Development

Recently, I noticed a shift in how I use coding agents. I switched from Cursor to Claude Code, spending more time in the console than in an IDE.

I started feeling comfortable offloading larger chunks of work to agents, steering them at a higher level and writing less code by hand. Simon Willison noticed something similar: the models got incrementally better, until GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 reached an inflection point where suddenly much harder coding problems opened up.