Working with Coding AgentsTwo agents, compared honestly
Claude, from Anthropic, and Codex, from OpenAI, are two takes on the same idea: an assistant that lives in your project rather than in a browser tab.
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The short list of habits
A short list of working habits, each with the failure it prevents.
A clean tree, every time
A commit behind you turns “undo the last twenty minutes” from archaeology into one command.
One task at a time
Before sending: can you say in one sentence what would make this attempt a success? If not, it is still a topic.
Ask for proof, not reassurance
Be sceptical of a test written in the same turn as the fix: it can be shaped to pass rather than to check.
Elsewhere in the notes
Reading a change properly
The review is the part that was never delegable. It is also the part that gets skipped first.
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