Keep the Plan Beside the Code: Debugging with HDD Light

In my earlier article about my dad's workbench , I wrote about his work as a precision sheet metal mechanic. He kept drawings at his workstation and corrected them when the job required a change. The next person had a record that reflected the work. I keep coming back to that lesson when working with coding agents. We agree on a plan in chat, start investigating, and discover that the first…