Plans Are the New Code

Why I went anti-agile to run an agent team — and the four shifts I would make sooner if I did this again. There is a reason that Boris Cherny — the engineer who built Claude Code at Anthropic — opens his official thirty-minute walkthrough not with a coding demo, but with a long detour through CLAUDE.md, shared project context, and "think before you code." There is a reason the same tool ships a built-in plan mode as a first-class feature, and that Anthropic's own best-practices guide tells you,