Beyond this, you need to maintain good test coverage, and you need to have agents red-team your tests aggressively to make sure they're robust.
If you implement these two steps your agent performance will skyrocket. The planning phase will produce plans that claude can iterate on for 3+ hours in some cases, if you tell it to complete the entire task in one shot, and the robust test validation / change set analysis will catch agents solving an easier problem because they got frustrated or not following directions.
sublinear•32m ago
If the goal is to start writing code not knowing much, it may be a good way to learn how and establish a similar discipline within yourself to tackle projects? I think there's been research that training wheels don't work either though. Whatever works and gets people learning to write code for real can't be bad, right?
weego•19m ago
Editing this kind of configuration has far less cognitive load and loading time, so distractions aren't as destructive to the task as they are when coding. You can then also structure time so that productive agent coding can be happening while you're doing business critical tasks like meetings / calls etc.
I do think this is overkill though, and it's a bad plan and far too early to try and formalize The One Way To Instruct AI How To Code, but every advance is an opportunity to gain career traction so fair play.