A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

To all the engineers using claude code: how do you submit your (well, claude’s) to review? Say, you have a big feature/epic to implement. Typically (pre-ai) times you would split it in chunks and submit each chunk as PR to be reviewed. You don’t want to submit dozens of file changes because nobody would review it. Now with llms, one can easily explain the whole feature to the machine and they would output the whole code just fine. What do you do? You divide it manually for review submission? One chunk after another?

It’s way easier to let the agent code the whole thing if your prompt is good enough than to give instructions bit by bit only because your colleagues cannot review a PR with 50 file changes.

Practically - you can commit it all after you're done and then tell it to tease apart the commit into multiple well documented logical steps.

"Ask the LLM" is a good enough solution to an absurd number of situations. Being open to questioning your approach - or even asking the LLM (with the right context) to question your approach has been valuable in my experience.

But from a more general POV, its something we'll have to spend the next decade figuring out. 'Agile'/scrum & friends is a sort of industry-wide standard approach, and all of that should be rethought - once a bit of the dust settles.

We're so early in the change that I haven't even seen anybody get it wrong, let alone right.