(1) Spending time building a plan. I have lots of artifacts like diagrams, tables, web pages that help me think through all the details quickly. Get code snippets to reduce uncertainty, get options for architectural decisions, flesh out assumptions.

Main thing is (1) how do I verify the agent hits the happy path and (2) how can I elicit and clarify assumptions it might make.

Then follow up the build with exploring and refactoring.

(2) prioritized context switching (like playing an RTS) I have several tasks going at once, while one works I hop onto other tasks.

I usually have one or two “core” goals I’m trying to accomplish that take deeper thinking and get priority. The other tasks are smaller and require less thinking.

A lot of times I’ll have the secondary agents build research docs I can review in detail later.