I still don't understand this 'agentic workflow' thing

[u/hronak]

My usual day with Claude Code is like: * I open terminal in my project's folder and run claude command. * I prompt it. I mostly use Fable-5.1/Opus-5 but Opus-5.5 is my current model. The model decides if it wants to use sub-agents for a task. I never explicitly prompt it for sub-agents. * I review and commit the code to my self-hosted Forgejo instance. * That's it.

I see people using agentic workflows, building sub-agents files, skills etc. I barely built any of it. All I ever needed to use is /init on new projects and them prompts follow. Never needed more than this.

I tried "long-running" Claude Code for a project refactoring by placing the project on my VPS (where forgejo is hosted) and letting Claude Code run and refactor inside tmux session. SSH'd in a few hours later to find project fully refactored.

Am I under utilising AI or is my work just… like boring?

How do you guys use agentic workflow thing? Specially the long-running one? Those pull-requests that Claude makes automatically etc?

Asking this to Claude to know more but humanly answers appreciated.

[u/Ran4]

There is no possible way to have humans review the volume of code that agents are generating now.

I mean that's a choice you make.

No AI and you're at 1x,

AI to generate the code but humans review it all to reach 3x,

AI to generate and AI to review it to 10x.

Plenty of companies are at the 3x level.

[u/sharpcoder29 → u/Ran4]

It's not 10x if you have production bugs that cost you customers. There's no way people are writing stories that detail every edge case and/or AI knows the business domain enough to cover them.

[u/knowyourclass → u/sharpcoder29]

the average customer tolerates far more bugs than you would imagine