# You Still Need to Think

DevFeed: [You Still Need to Think](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/you-still-need-to-think-37191.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://calv.info/you-still-need-to-think>)

Author: Calvin French-Owen

Published: 2025-09-26T15:15:04Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Calvin French-Owen](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/calvin-french-owen.md>)

Topics: [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/context.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/codex.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>)

Tags: [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/codex.md>), [coding-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding-agents.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [error-handling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/error-handling.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion argues that increasingly capable, long-running coding agents do not eliminate the need for human thinking; they change where that thinking is spent. Remote, interactive, and IDE-focused tools shift effort among providing context, planning, implementation, verification, and review. The author suggests LLMs are currently strongest at implementation and weakest at supplying organizational context.

## Source excerpt

When it comes to coding agents, the product shape fundamentally shifts how you think.