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AI Coding Feels Magical Until The Project Gets Serious
AI coding breaks when the work needs memory, handoffs, evidence, review, and recovery. That is an operating-system problem.
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Claude Code workflows, agents, hooks, skills, and operating patterns.

AI coding breaks when the work needs memory, handoffs, evidence, review, and recovery. That is an operating-system problem.

CLAUDE.md can give context, but serious agentic work needs hooks, validators, ledgers, and review gates that do not depend on model memory.

Premium models should plan, decide, review, and escalate. Cheaper workers should handle bounded tasks that can be checked.