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The Intent Layer | Intent Systems

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Make agents perform like your best engineers on large codebases.

Last month I watched a senior engineer ask Claude to refactor a payment processing service. The change touched multiple modules and required understanding implicit contracts across the system. Claude hallucinated a boundary that didn't exist, missed a critical validation layer, and introduced a bug that would've broken settlement. The next week, a junior engineer on a different team asked for a similar refactor—this time on their billing system, twice the size, twice the complexity . Claude nailed it first try. Correct boundaries, no broken invariants. It even flagged an edge case the engineer

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