Start by having the agent ask you questions until it has enough information to create a plan.
Use the agent to create the plan.
Follow the plan.
When I started, I had to look at the code pretty frequently. Rather than fix it myself, I spent time thinking about what I could change in my prompts or workflow.
How many hours have you spent writing code? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Were you able to achieve good results in the first hundred hours?
Now, compare it to how much time you've spent working with agents. Did you dedicate considerable time to figuring out how to use them? Do you stop using the agent and do things manually when it isn't going right, or do you spend time figuring out how to get the agent to do it?
Start by having the agent ask you questions until it has enough information to create a plan.
Use the agent to create the plan.
Follow the plan.
When I started, I had to look at the code pretty frequently. Rather than fix it myself, I spent time thinking about what I could change in my prompts or workflow.