I’m a hobbyist developer working on stuff for my own personal use. I’m curious if others run into this, whether noobs like me or people with a lot more experience working on bigger projects. By far, I get the most value out of my first prompt. I put a bunch of effort into writing CLAUDE.md and putting together a plan, then the first big coding prompt lays out the whole framework of whatever component I’m working on. Prompts 2-10 or so give some great returns too, adding and refining features, etc. I find myself switching to manual in the tweak stage. Bug fixes, little edits, a button here, a menu there. I find myself making those adjustments manually/using auto complete is actually more efficient. Sending Claude into the weeds to deal with small stuff ends up being almost as expensive as the build out, taking multiple tries, git restores, etc and a much higher risk of hallucination. So I have a workflow where I lean on Claude to build out the framework, get me 90% of the way there, and I go back in and do the remaining 10%. Once the thing is built, though, it’s much harder to provide good direction and get good results. There’s all this context to manage. I don’t just mean the literal chat context and /compact, I mean the project itself. Way easier to build from scratch than edit existing and preserve functionality. Not complaining really, it’s better than having to do the first 90% myself. But is anyone else experiencing this? I’m curious what strategies people are using to make AI work for the surgical nitty gritty fixes and design refinements. submitted by /u/Time_Cat_5212
Originally posted by u/Time_Cat_5212 on r/ClaudeCode
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