I’ve been doing a lot more AI Agent coding lately. My pair programming experience comes in quite handy, especially around proactively monitoring what the agent is doing and knowing when to step in and retake control.

But another thing that I appreciate is the ability to flip the usual roles and have the AI Agent “navigate” what we are doing, while I actually perform the tasks. If I’m typing/copying/pasting the code, shell commands, etc., then I am able to give them my full attention and code review. And the AI Agent is won’t be able to trick me into doing something very stupid or dangerous (most of the time!).