Investing planning time in high-leverage areas like design and architecture, then letting agents generate code without reviewing all of it, can make teams move 2-3x faster than fully manual coding.

Of three 'software factory' approaches, Dex favors finding leverage points where an hour of planning saves four hours of implementation, keeping humans focused on design and key decisions while agents handle code generation. ✦ AI generated

Dex Horthy · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-07-15 · original ↗

Find leverage, but keep people in the loop. Find out where an hour spent in planning could save four hours’ worth of implementation, in terms of fewer bugs. Invest more time in areas with leverage: design, architecture, and key decisions. Then, let the agent generate code and don’t insist on reviewing all of it.

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