What To Optimize For With Coding Agents

When you start to use agentic coding tools - like Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex, or OpenCode - it can be overwhelming at first. Coding agents like these are overpowered Swiss-army chainsaws. They have a great deal of leverage, and that leverage is strange; it can be hard to know how to work with them in a way that doesn't cause problems later. Let me suggest a good approach: Optimize for understandability. In other words, as you start using coding agents in new ways, experimenting with what works