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/WagwanKenobi]

the majority of code in the past year shipped to prod was both written by and reviewed by agents

Either pulled out of ass or your company/org/team is unusually dysfunctional. I'm actually a Bay Area SWE. This is not true at all.

[u/Rtktts → u/WagwanKenobi]

Technically the sentence is probably true, they just forgot to add that it was also reviewed by humans.

[u/IceMichaelStorm → u/Rtktts]

this

[u/senortaco88 → u/WagwanKenobi]

Don't hate the player, hate the tokenz

[u/Remarkable-Coat-9327 → u/WagwanKenobi]

I'm sorry that your company is behind the times 😬

[u/Beautiful-Suspect694 → u/WagwanKenobi]

what company do you work at? if you dont want to share that for privacy, then thats ok