Claude Code team's Addy on how to maintain critical thinking when using Agents

indigo relays the views of Claude Code team's Addy Osmani, pointing out that the stronger the model, the easier it is for people to let their guard down in a comfortable state where Agent outputs are mostly good and multiple Agents run at once while there is only one pair of eyes. The article divides this cognitive decline into three steps—offloading, deferring, and surrendering—and proposes placing judgment at both ends of the task: beforehand, clearly write out assumptions, goals, boundaries, and completion criteria; during, have the Agent output intermediate artifacts step by step and verify them; afterward, look at the evidence first and then the summary, and use another model to cross-check execution documents and logs. The final threshold before delivery is whether you can explain the output and are willing to sign your name and take responsibility for it.