9. Sessions and the Interactive Loop (Steering Claude Code in the Terminal)

Imagine you type just a single sentence into your terminal. And while you are, you know, pouring the milk, your computer reads 40 files across your code base.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of right, agent, slash, including: You press enter, and you walk away to get a cup of coffee.

1. 01It writes 300 lines of new code, runs your entire test suite, watches the tests fail, reads the error output, rewrites the code to fix the bug, passes the tests, and then just quie
2. 02You didn't manually run a single diagnostic command
3. 03And it fundamentally breaks our traditional mental model of what programming even is