https://joestead.codes/tags/claude-code/Recent content in claude-code on Joe SteadHugoen-gbTue, 02 Jun 2026 22:13:59 +0100https://joestead.codes/posts/jetbrains-mcp-claude-code/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0100https://joestead.codes/posts/jetbrains-mcp-claude-code/<p>I&rsquo;ve been using coding agents like Claude Code a fair bit recently, and for the most part I think they&rsquo;re great tools, but not without flaws. The agent doesn&rsquo;t understand my codebase; It just reads it. Those two things are not the same.</p> <h2 id="how-an-agent-finds-things-by-default">How an agent finds things by default</h2> <p>Ask an agent to rename a method, or to find everywhere a particular type gets used, and watch what it actually does. It greps. It runs a regex over your files, gets back a wall of text, then opens a few of those files in full to figure out which matches are real and which are noise, and quite often it&rsquo;ll grep again with a slightly different pattern because the first one was too greedy.</p>