Countering Complaisance: 14 Rules to Prevent Silent Failures in Claude Code Development

Coding alone with AI creates a dangerous feedback loop where the AI's sycophantic nature combines with developer self-validation bias, allowing critical errors to persist undetected until audit time. The Counterpart Toolkit's 14 rules—especially 'Falsify before fix'—reduce costly fix-then-rollback cycles by 6 to 18 times per incident, making them essential safeguards for developers working without traditional PR review oversight.