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Working with Coding Agents.

The delegate-and-supervise discipline of working with autonomous coding agents: when to delegate, scoping work, spec-driven development, instruction files, managing long-run context, reviewing agent-authored PRs, agent failure modes, permissions/sandboxing, verification & accountability, fleet supervision, and honest impact measurement. Distinct from ai_dev_workflow's in-loop AI-assisted craft (boundary = unit of delegation).

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Spec-Driven Development
In an agent workflow, where is the least expensive point to inject human judgment and change the direction of the work if needed?
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Agent Failure Modes
Asked to fix one null check in auth.ts, an agent returns a 40-file diff: the fix, plus renamed variables and reformatted modules that have nothing to do with auth. Its summary mentions only the null check. Which failure mode is this?
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Agent Failure Modes
While fixing a build error an agent inserts array.flattenDeep() in plain JavaScript and says it is standard. The tests then fail with TypeError: array.flattenDeep is not a function. Which failure is this?

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Working with Coding Agents.

In an agent workflow, where is the least expensive point to inject human judgment and change the direction of the work if needed?

Asked to fix one null check in `auth.ts`, an agent returns a 40-file diff: the fix, plus renamed variables and reformatted modules that have nothing to do with auth. Its summary mentions only the null check. Which failure mode is this?

While fixing a build error an agent inserts `array.flattenDeep()` in plain JavaScript and says it is standard. The tests then fail with `TypeError: array.flattenDeep is not a function`. Which failure is this?

Working with Coding Agents.

In an agent workflow, where is the least expensive point to inject human judgment and change the direction of the work if needed?

Asked to fix one null check in auth.ts, an agent returns a 40-file diff: the fix, plus renamed variables and reformatted modules that have nothing to do with auth. Its summary mentions only the null check. Which failure mode is this?

While fixing a build error an agent inserts array.flattenDeep() in plain JavaScript and says it is standard. The tests then fail with TypeError: array.flattenDeep is not a function. Which failure is this?

Asked to fix one null check in `auth.ts`, an agent returns a 40-file diff: the fix, plus renamed variables and reformatted modules that have nothing to do with auth. Its summary mentions only the null check. Which failure mode is this?

While fixing a build error an agent inserts `array.flattenDeep()` in plain JavaScript and says it is standard. The tests then fail with `TypeError: array.flattenDeep is not a function`. Which failure is this?