Slow-cooking features

I first thought about the next chunky Pagecord feature 148 days ago, according to the Fizzy card I created (I use Fizzy to track all my Pagecord work). I put up the first PR 32 days after that, and I got it production ready today, 4 months later. The feature didn't take 5 months of me grinding at the keyboard every day. Far from it. In the agentic coding era it has probably taken only a few hours of prompting and LLM munching over that time. At most, a couple of day's work in total.What's interesting to me about this isn't the flex of building a feature quickly without hand-cranking much/any code (that's still fascinating, for sure), but rather that it's still worth taking your time to let a feature sit and evolve a little before shoving it out the door. Not only will this help you find a few more bugs and edge cases, but you'll have more time to think about the implementation and whether you truly need it – could it be done more simply, is the additional complexity worth the cost, is…