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Developer workflows you'll coach

Answer this as if it were happening now: "A senior engineer says 'I don't trust the agent to write my code.' Which response best builds credibility?" Say what supports your choice.

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“Use the AI more” is not coaching. It's the advice a developer ignores. What changes behavior is showing a specific engineer a specific workflow that saves them real time on the work they already do today.

Your credibility with engineers comes from naming concrete, high-value patterns - and from being equally clear about where the agent shouldn't be trusted yet. Start with the workflows that convert skeptics fastest.

WHICH WORKFLOW TO COACH FIRST

Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.

diagram: quadrant

Coach the top-right first: high value and safe to trust because the output is checkable.

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Developer workflows you'll coach

Scaffolding

New endpoint, component or service from a one-line intent.

Fast, visible win; low risk because the dev reviews structure they know.

Test generation

Generate the unit and edge-case tests devs skip when rushed.

Raises coverage and earns trust - output is checkable against pass/fail.

Cross-file refactors

Rename, reshape or migrate a pattern across many files in one pass.

The Agent showcase - and where the cycle-time story comes from.

Codebase Q&A for onboarding

“How does billing work here?” answered against the real repo.

Cuts ramp time for new hires from weeks toward days.

Incident and debugging support is a fifth pattern worth its own mention: an engineer under pressure can ask the agent to trace a failure across the codebase and propose a fix, which is exactly when the time saved is most felt - and most scrutinized.