I dont know about Claude Code, but I'm using Amp Code since November 2025 and it don't need the mode at all, just conversation.

“Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential” - Churchill

Use instead:

   npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill=grill-me

or

   npx skills add imbue-ai/blueprint

Or anything similar.

Maybe we need to figure out how humans should communicate with AI

> how do humans maintain a coherent mental model of a software system

This is the core question and it is wrong. Because it focuses on the software system rather than the problem you are trying to solve. A better version would be:

  How do humans maintain a coherent mental model of the solution they want to create?

You need to have a picture of the whole process and everything related, not just your architecture and code.

>We still haven’t solved how to help people stay oriented as hundreds of increasingly capable agents change a system at once.

Engineer, meet business school.

It seems people will never tire of finding out that writing code isn't the hard part of making useful software.

The Planning vs Plan is the core of the post.

I disagree I want a proper read only mode, a lot of times models are still trigger happy.