- Think about requirement
- Spend 0-360 minutes looking through the code
- Start writing code
- Realize I didn't think about it quite enough and fix the design
- Finish writing code
- Write unit tests
- Submit MR
- Fix MR feedback
Until recently no LLM was able to properly disrupt that, however the release of Opus 4.5 changed that.
Now my workflow is:
- Throw as much context into Opus as possible about what I want in plan mode
- Spend 0-60 minutes refining the plan
- Have Opus do the implementation
- Review all the code and nitpick small things
- Submit MR
- Implement MR feedback