Agentic coding Session 1 — The Agentic Mental Model

<p><strong>The Agentic Mental Model:</strong> what &quot;agentic&quot; means and the loop, the context window as the governing constraint, explore→plan→implement→commit, verification, and precise prompting.</p><p><br></p><p>Most engineers meet AI coding tools as a smarter autocomplete. Claude Code is something else: an agent that explores, plans, and writes code on its own while you direct and review. This opening episode rewires how you think about the tool. We unpack what &quot;agentic&quot; actually means, why the context window is the one constraint that explains every best practice, the explore-plan-implement-commit workflow, and the discipline of verification — giving the agent a check it can run so it self-corrects. The foundation for everything that follows, and for any interview that asks how you think with an AI agent.</p><p><br></p>