The models powering coding agents currently behave more like fuzzy function calls, or Q&A bots. For more complex tasks, it would be better if they (ironically) behave more like chat, where they refine their understanding (and mine too) with follow-up questions and discussion, rather than being biased towards “answering”/“solving” in the very next reply. Just think of how you’d talk to a freelancer. Wouldn’t you expect them to ask follow-up questions and clarify the requirements until we’re both sure that we’ve really understood the task? Or maybe even clarify stuff while implementing. “Plan mode” is an okay approximation (especially if you explicitly ask it to list questions for me). But that’s a workaround - the model is not explicitly post-trained/architected for dialogue. And doesn’t come into play during implementation.