Claude Code: From Agent to Useful Tool
Claude Code is a terminal-based coding agent. It can edit files, run commands, inspect the output, and continue working based on what it sees. At first, this feels almost magical. You describe a feature, and the agent builds it. It opens files, writes code, runs tests, fixes errors, and keeps going. Then the problems start to appear: the codebase fills up with quick fixes and questionable decisions; new features break old functionality; the agent repeats the same mistakes; […]