In the meantime, apparently, with the rise of the agents, that future is already here, and there are some who already harnessed such power. See the video: the author explains their process, and claims that he had not looked into the code for 6+ weeks and only works with the MD specs now.
When preparing recipes for agents - they build entire workflow around managing context, and make them 3-fold: "research, plan, implement", and then he goes into details how they avoid slop and keep mental alignment for developers to keep up with the changes.
Compared to that - I now realize that what I originally built (an AI helper for a terminal: https://github.com/acrotron/aye-chat) is on the "naive" side: prompt until you either get it right from AI or give up and try from the beginning - and with this context generation approach explained I think I will start moving to the agent-based implementation while keeping control plane still in the terminal: current implementation works on smaller code bases but with this approach should be able to cover larger ones as well.
With these techs developing so fast - I think it's just a matter of keeping up with the news - and be aware of what's being done successfully, and unfortunately that's not always easy to do. This one specifically - to let go of code reviews and learning how to work with spec files only - will require mentality change, and it will be a psychological barrier to overcome.
