> Delegate, do not pair-program. Cat Wu (Claude Code team): “The model performs best if you treat it like an engineer you’re delegating to, not a pair programmer you’re guiding line by line.” Write a crisp brief upfront, then let it run.

This is also how you get a slop codebase that you won’t easily understand.

It becomes a labyrinth that only the Agent knows. It’s not a catastrophe when your making prototypes or projects like you see on X.

But if you are expanding your codebase or trying to build something more professional and maintainable. I find it important to explicitly spec things bit by bit so I can understand and some what keep my writing style in this codebase. But this is only productive when you have a fast model otherwise it kills your chain of thought while you wait for the output.

If the model is slow, delegation is probably the only way.