The other day I used agents to convert a dollar field to a cents field. I’ve wanted to for a literal decade. But this is dangerous territory. You don’t want to 100x your users’ bills.

Using agents I felt safer than I ever would without.

Agents…

1. Investigated the necessary changes and their consequences
2. Confirmed that this would generally be a good idea – to standardize and to remove the risk if hitting float math troubles.
3. Made the necessary changes to code and unit tests.
4. Wrote the data and schema migrations.
5. Did manual testing in Chrome.
6. Watched the deploy.
7. Ran spot and full diagnostic checks on db backups of before/after to verify.

Not only can I work faster, I can also be extra thorough, be my best developer self.