The real upgrade in my AI Workflow was not better code generation

A lot of people still talk about AI coding workflows as if the main story is code generation. That was true for me at first too. Six months ago, my AI workflow was already useful. I had reusable commands, predefined templates, and a decent setup across tools like Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code. It was enough to help me generate code faster and reduce repeated prompting. But after using it every day, I realized the real bottleneck was not code generation. It was workflow orchestration. I was still the one remembering what to run next. I was still dragging context from one step to another.