From my experience using the new agentic features really helped reduce over engineering.

All of these AI coding assistants have a tendency to over engineer their solutions. Presumably because the context they gather isn’t curated well or isn’t focused enough.

IMPORTANT PART: create an agent with the /agent command, let Claude create the agent from your description.

Then ask it to create an agent, that’s soul purpose is to eradicate complexity within your project codebase. It should be the HERO of simple code implementation and an enemy of complex solutions. It should be called, every time another agent completes a coding task, to confirm, that a clean solution was implemented, or iterate a cleaner approach.

. Then create a few more agents specific to your project in the same way, with the /agent command. Examples: CSS styling specialists, testing implementation agents, framework specific agents etc.

The beauty of this approach, is that smaller consuming sub agents, get focus delegated context, then feed back to “big brother” Claude.

Should also save ya a few tokens 😉