The agent writes the code. You're still the engineer.
I'm building HandyFEM with Claude Code as my pair. It's fast — sometimes startlingly so. But the way I work with it is deliberate: I treat everything it produces the way I'd treat a pull request from a capable junior developer. I read it. I question it. I decide what stays.
This post is a concrete example of why that habit matters.
The task: scaffolding the project
Before writing features, you scaffold a project — generate its skeleton: folder structure, config files, a base page that runs. I had the agent set up the foundation for HandyFEM:
