Comment by vidarh
If you let it paint you into a corner, why are you doing so?
I don't know what you mean by "a lot of guidance". Maybe I just naturally do that, but to me there's not been much change in the level of guidance I need to give Claude Code or my own agent vs. what I'd give developers working for me.
Another issue is that as long as you ensure it builds good enough tests, the cost of telling it to just throw out the code it builds later and redo it with additional architectural guidance keeps dropping.
The code is increasingly becoming throwaway.
> If you let it paint you into a corner, why are you doing so?
What do you mean? If it were as simple as not letting it do so, I would do as you suggest. I may as well stop letting it be incorrect in general. Lots of guidance helps avoid it.
> Maybe I just naturally do that, but to me there's not been much change in the level of guidance I need to give Claude Code or my own agent vs. what I'd give developers working for me.
Well yeah. You need to give it lots of guidance, like someone who works for you.
> the cost of telling it to just throw out the code it builds later and redo it with additional architectural guidance keeps dropping.
It's a moving target for sure. My confidence with this in more complex scenarios is much smaller.