Help the Agent to Feel

Since the release of Opus 4.7 in April, I don’t write code by hand anymore. I only talk to Claude Code. Not because I’m lazy or don’t like coding, but because he is a better programmer than I. Also faster and much cheaper. However, for most tasks I can’t let it fly solo in an “auto mode.” Because his standards are lower than I would expect even in a junior developer. He is like Mowgli: smart and strong, but rude and clumsy. My job is to teach him elegance, my way. And unlike with most developers, with him I can do this. Crocodile Dundee (1986) by Peter Faiman I know that he spent the first few months of his life in the wild. Technically, in GitHub, StackOverflow, and software development blogs and books. This is where he learned how others code, by looking at billions of lines of code. Obviously, we can’t expect most of the lines to be pretty. We can’t even expect them to be correct. However, while correctness is a verifiable deterministic category, code prettiness is not. It’s not…