Managing Your Coding Agent Like a Team: Start With Self-Verification Mechanisms
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-11-12
The author argues that working with coding agents daily is essentially management work: picking tasks, writing clear requirements, allocating work, tracking progress, reviewing results, and deciding what ships. The people who use agents well aren't necessarily the best prompt writers — they've learned to manage.
Practice #1: Give the agent a way to check its own work. Don't treat "looks done" as done, or you'll end up verifying everything yourself. Provide explicit verification mechanisms — tests, builds, lint, screenshots, or diff scripts — and require the agent to show results and keep fixing on failure.
(This is part 1 of a 12-part thread.)
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