How to align coding agents with your plans better than markdown, without burning tokens (opens in new tab)

The expensive moments in a coding-agent session are not the model's tokens. They are the seconds you spend skimming a markdown plan and missing a subtle misalignment. You approve, then watch the implementer solve a slightly different problem than the one in your head. We have started treating that gap as a UI problem, not a model problem. And the UI we have, for coding agents specifically, is bad. Thariq Shihipar at Claude Code has been making this case publicly for a while: agents should be ...