> forces the engineer to spend a moment to actually think about what they're doing and make some kind of plan

i thought so too, until i observed the exact opposite at $job

basically i see people just jump into claude and tell it to do x, then x is wrong or not quite right, so they go down a rabbit-hole fixing up things again and again burning tokens like a bonfire till it sort of works... i see very little upfront planning from where im at but maybe this is just my bubble...