Steering Claude away from over-engineering gets harder as agent output grows
ronbodkin · x · 2026-10-14
Commenting on Anthropic's source control rewrite post, ronbodkin notes engineers must now own high-level design tradeoffs and often tell Claude 'no' — e.g. steering it away from over-engineering for hypothetical concerns. He warns this human-steering model gets harder to uphold as agentic output scales.
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