I got so tired of agents turning me into an "AI Middle-Manager," I built an agentless coding UI for myself.

A developer, frustrated with autonomous agents like Cursor turning them into an "AI Middle-Manager," created an agentless coding UI. They found themselves spending 80% of their time writing extensive markdown plans to constrain the agent's context and prevent hallucinations, rather than coding. The developer is now bootstrapping this solo project and seeks input from others who favor strict-context coding over autonomous agents.

This report highlights a developer's shift from agent-based AI coding, which required excessive context management, to a new agentless UI, unlike the current trend of autonomous agents.