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How I Work With Agents

Jul 13, 2026 14 min read agentic-engineering · claude-code · codex

A mandatory workshop in February put me back into hands-on engineering and changed how I work. These are the practices I've learned from countless hours with agents since - most of them useful well beyond coding.

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