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How much transparency does Claude Code give you into what it's doing? I like IDE-integrated agents as they show diffs and allow focused prompting for specific areas of concern. And I get to control what's in context at any given time in a longer thread. I haven't tried Claude's thing in a while, but from what I gather it's more of a "prompt and pray" kind of agent.. ?

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My experience is that you can be very targeted in your promoting with Claude code and it mostly gets good results. You can also ask it early on to create a branch and create logical commits as it works. This way, you can examine smaller code changes later in a PR (or git log).

Or if you want to work more manually, you could do the same but not allow full access to git commit. That way it will request access each time it’s ready to commit and you can take that time to review diffs.

Definitely not a prompt and pray type thing, though you can do that if you choose. It shows its work, in the newest version there's three modes (planning, executing, auto accepting edits). You can also hit Esc at any time to redirect as you see it going in the wrong direction.

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