Telling the Agent Why, Not Just What

There's a difference between an agent that follows instructions and one that understands your intent. When Claude's orchestrator started reviewing its own code instead of delegating to sub-agents, Jesse Vincent fixed it by adding the reasoning behind the rule, telling it that sub-agents handle review to preserve the orchestrator's context window for high-level thinking. Follow O'Reilly on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oreilly/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oreillymedia BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/oreilly.bsky.social TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oreillymedia