A bit of context: I’m a data engineer and Claude Code has genuinely been a game changer for me. Pipelines, dashboards, analytics scripts, all of it. Literally wrote 0 code in the past 3 months in my full time job, only Claude Code. But I know exactly what it’s doing and I can review and validate everything pretty easily. The exepreince has been amazing. So naturally I thought: “if it’s this good at data stuff, let me try building an actual product with it.” Teamed up with a PM, she wrote a proper PRD, like a real, thorough one, and I handed it straight to Claude Code. Told it to implement everything, run tests, the whole thing. Deployed to Railway. Went to try it. Literally nothing working correctly lol. It was rough. And I’m sitting there like… I see people online saying they shipped full apps with Claude Code and no engineering background. How?? What am I missing?? I already have a good background in software. Would love to hear from people who’ve actually shipped something with it: What’s your workflow look like? Do you babysit it the whole time or do you actually let it run? Is there a specific way you break down requirements before handing them off? Any tools or scaffolding you set up first? Not hating on Claude Code at all, I literally cannot live without it, just clearly out of my depth here and trying to learn submitted by /u/Azrael_666
Originally posted by u/Azrael_666 on r/ClaudeCode