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.