Fully agreed.

In my view, effective coding agent use boils down to being good at writing briefs as you would for any ticket. The better formatting, detail, and context you can provide BOTH on an outcome level and a technical architecture level, the better your results are.

To put it another way: If before LLMs came along you were someone who (purposely or otherwise) became good at writing for documentation and briefing tickets for your team, I think there's a decent chance you're going further with these agentic tools than others that just shove an idea into it and hope for the best.