I started work on consolidating multiple "edit" surfaces - basically multiple pop-ups for configuring a pipeline, things like metadata, pipeline stage configuration like stage order, name, colour etc.
I "finished" when I merged all of the scattered product surfaces into a single, long, scrollable page - without considering that it will be quite cumbersome for a user to see such a big form. I got feedback during code review based on the screenshots I had uploaded.
It made sense. I wasted the time it took to the get the implementation just right instead of thinking whether even is it the right UX for my user.
Lesson learnt, will start my asking coding agent to give options for UIs and make concious effort to see if the UX might be good/bad. Will also ask designer colleague to eyeball it, even that I forgot unfortunately...