Jacksonato Joe

First off, I am a history major, so I don't really have any knowledge or background in LLMs or what you guys call an AI Agent. But I have always been interested in the field and have lots of free time this summer.

I am, though, very good at using AI chatbots, like chatgpt, or Gemini, becasue I relied on them a lot while writing papers. This time, I wanted to use them for programming instead. I wasn't sure which AI coding tool to use for someone like me, so I simply picked a random one. Now, jumping to my question(please check the image I attached below):

It doesn't even have to be a big dramatic failures, more the small moments where something clicked and you went from trusting the output by default to double checking everything. For me it was watching an agent confidently rename a function across twelve files, then leave the original function untouched in a thirteenth file it apparently didn't search, with zero indication anything had been missed. It wasn't even a hard case, the file just wasn't in the directory it happened to grep first.
What was your moment? And did it actually change your workflow afterward, or did the trust creep back in after a week like it always seems to for me?

Daily reality: Claude Code in one pane, Codex in another, Cursor in a third, plus a few shells. An agent stops and waits for "yes". By the time I find the right pane, 20 min gone.

Just me? What's your setup notifications, layout tricks, or you've accepted the tax?