2025-03-03
Claude Code & Agentic Development
A presentation on how Claude Code works, context engineering, tool calling, subagents, and the shift toward compound engineering.
What's covered
- What is Claude Code — an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal and operates directly on your codebase
- Context engineering — how to give an agent the right information at the right time (CLAUDE.md, memory systems, structured prompts)
- Tool calling — how agents perceive and act on the world through tools like file reads, bash execution, and web search
- Subagents — spawning specialized agents in parallel to handle complex, multi-step tasks
- Slash commands — composable, reusable prompts that extend agent behavior
- Agentic workflows — moving from single-shot prompts to multi-agent pipelines
- Compound engineering — the idea that AI doesn't replace engineers, it multiplies what a single engineer can ship
Why this matters
The mental model shift isn't "AI writes my code." It's "I architect systems where AI handles the mechanical work so I can focus on the decisions that actually require judgment."
That's the version of agentic development I find exciting — and what I'm actively building toward at Visa.