One thing I was wondering after looking at the list of items in the “Cursor agent produced a coding plan” image: do folks actually make such lists when developing a feature without AI assistants?
That list has items like “Create API endpoints for …”, “Write tests …”. If you’re working on a feature that’s within a single codebase and not involving dependencies on other systems or teams, isn’t that a lot of ceremony for what you’ll eventually end up doing anyway (and only likely to miss due to oversight)?
I see a downside to such lists, because when I see a dozen items lined up like that… who knows whether they’re all the right ones for the feature at hand? Or whether the feature needs some other change entirely, or whether you’ve figured out the right order to do them in?
Where I’ve seen such fine-grained lists have value is for task timeline estimation, but rarely for the actual implementation.
One thing I was wondering after looking at the list of items in the “Cursor agent produced a coding plan” image: do folks actually make such lists when developing a feature without AI assistants?
That list has items like “Create API endpoints for …”, “Write tests …”. If you’re working on a feature that’s within a single codebase and not involving dependencies on other systems or teams, isn’t that a lot of ceremony for what you’ll eventually end up doing anyway (and only likely to miss due to oversight)?
I see a downside to such lists, because when I see a dozen items lined up like that… who knows whether they’re all the right ones for the feature at hand? Or whether the feature needs some other change entirely, or whether you’ve figured out the right order to do them in?
Where I’ve seen such fine-grained lists have value is for task timeline estimation, but rarely for the actual implementation.