I think the sweet spot is ai-assisted chat with manual review: readily available, not as costly

agents jump ahead to the point of the user and project being out of control and more expensive

I think a lot of us still hesitate to make that jump; or at least I am not sure of a cost-effective agent approach (I guess I could manually review their output, but I could see it going off track quickly)

I guess I'd like to see more of an exact breakdown of what prompts and tools and AI are used to get ideas on if I'd use that for myself more

Suspect the sweet spot also depends on the objective. If it’s a personal tool where you are the primary user then vibe coding all the way. You can describe requirements precisely and if it breaks there are no angry customers.

Something with actual users needs a bit more care