Key to Coding Agents: Learning to Let Go
haltakov · x · 2026-07-17
The author shares a key insight from using coding agents: the real skill is learning to let go.
They assigned a cross-platform feature to GPT-5.6 Sol, granting only browser access and a single instruction: continuously test real results until it succeeds. Initially, the model tried to rely on internal judgments, but once it shifted to directly inspecting the real environment, it ran for 2.5 hours and delivered solid results.
The core methodology is:
- Don't hardcode every single step
- Instead, define "what success looks like"
- Then define "how to verify that success"
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