See, Act, Correct: three levers for working with a code agent (opens in new tab)

An out-of-the-box code agent only sees a repo and a shell. For professional engineering, that is not enough. Here are the principles that make the difference between a gadget and a production tool. Foreword. This article grew out of the talk by Daisy Holman, an engineer on the Claude Code team (May 2026). The founding ideas come from that talk, then supplemented by my own field experience and supported by documented research to cross-check them against available data. “If the agent can’t do e...