+1 to a lot of what you said here, especially this:

> I used to tell myself that plan mode mitigated that, but I usually ended up mentally glossing over the generated plans anyway.

At a certain point I realized I far preferred delegating the first implementation pass to agents and reviewing the _code_ instead of a plan up front. If you had asked me this question ~2 years ago I'd think anyone would be insane to hand off discretion like this, but frontier models are just so _good_ nowadays.

Let's say you launch 10 working sessions in a day, would you rather:

* Review 10 plans, and _then_ review 10 PRs, and _then_ maybe adjust the approach on 1-2 and merge the other 8

* Review 10 PRs, and maybe adjust the approach on maybe 4 and merge the other 6

The first option just feels like needless attention for the sake of feeling in control; but the reality is that these models are becoming just as good if not better as us humans and our reckoning is here. Our codebase has enough linters, hooks, and guards such that generally the agent just follows our blessed patterns already, so what is plan mode actually doing beyond giving me a false sense of security? I'm still going to read the code anyways.