Agent best practices - grind mode and various hooks
A comprehensive guide to working with coding agents, from starting with plans to managing context, customizing workflows, and reviewing code.
Summary
The post documents the development of an unobtrusive macOS automatic update notification feature for Ghostty, created primarily with AI tools but involving substantial human coding and iteration.
The author details each agentic coding session, highlighting how AI was used for prototyping, inspiration, and bug investigation, while emphasizing the necessity of manual intervention for quality and understanding. The new feature embeds update status unobtrusively in the terminal window, avoiding disruptive prompts or window focus changes.