This sounds like the programmer equivalent of astrology.

> Build context for the work you're doing. Put lots of your codebase into the context window.

If you don’t say that, what do you think happens as the agent works on your codebase.

You don't say that - you instruct the LLM to read files about X, Y, and Z. Putting the context in helps the agent plan better (next step) and write correct code (final step).

If you're asking the agent to do chunks of work, this will get better results than asking it to blindly go forth and do work. Anthropic's best practices guide says as much.

If you're asking the agent to create one method that accomplishes X, this isn't useful.

You don't have to think about it, you can just go try it. It doesn't work as well (yet) for me. I'm still way better than Claude at finding an initial heading.

Astrology doesn't produce working code =P