My Current AI Production Coding Workflow

In Early Lessons on AI Agent Productivity I talked about the early stages of my AI coding journey. After a couple months of forcing myself to use coding agents, I found myself being about a 1x developer. With a few weeks off to experiment on side projects, I began to find patterns that might let me work faster. At this point, especially since the release of Claude Opus 4.5 (and later 4.6!) I’ve…