I’ve been using Claude for about a year, and it’s never stopped behaving itself. The results on my projects continue to blow my mind. I do have a Codex pro plan that reads over every spec and feeds back, but basically my current workflow is use superpowers for everything, even little changes, babysit the whole thing, constantly get feedback and pushback from codex, and Claude builds everything I want. Thing is I’ve never been active in any online communities with this stuff but I do look at reddit and twitter a lot and get ideas for helping me along - but when I’ve seen posts declaring how terrible Claude has been recently I always think I either must have got away with it or I must not be doing stuff as complicated as everyone else. But now I’m sitting on another project I’ve delivered where I’ve fixed something that teams of really good devs have struggled with for years I’m thinking it’s not the complexity of the requirements but how I’m using it must be different to the cases where people are noticing Claude get either much worse or much more token hungry that it was. For context, I used to run a software business for 15 years supplying enterprise calc solutions to the actuarial industry. Sold out five years ago and gradually atrophied my brain and did zero technical work for ages - and beat myself up about how I’d never get back into it because everything I used to do seemed so difficult now, tech moved on so much, and the whole day drinking and wondering what the point of everything was didn’t help. That was until Claude started interesting me just over a year ago. Now I’m working with legacy systems in insurance companies where the board and users are genuinely terrified that the code is that old, messy and complex that they can’t stand over it anymore, everyone who wrote it is long gone, the new people don’t know what the hell is happening amidst all the spaghetti, so even small amendments have been impossible for ages - which is a massive problem when a client changes a rule or there is a legislative change that effects the whole book of business. I’m using Claude to unpick all the logic and spell it all out so that everything can be audited, each logical chunk of code now seen in many ways, all the data split out and placed into easily labelled tables, and everything in a safe state to either refactor entirely or build little changes into, the kind of changes that have been impossible due to the massive re-testing effort and the fact that everyone who knew how anything used to work died, left or retired. These are problems they’ve had teams of people looking at for years and got nowhere, but with the right prompting and being able to fail fast, I’m picking them off and literally creating millions in value with every problem solved. I keep reading on here that Claude is getting worse all the time, but I think people might be asking too much of it, maybe requesting too many one shot builds or fixes, not breaking things down into little chunks, not planning lots of little easily testable deliverables. I plan like mad, and babysit every PR. OK I still have to work round the clock, it’s just as hard checking everything as I ever did in dev, but the actual amount and quality of code and the speed to delivery I’m getting is seriously 20 times anything I used to be able to do. I guess if you just leave it to get on with something with a loose spec it makes a mess of it - but that’s the same as if you give a team of ten devs with only a bit of domain knowledge a loose spec and then come back a week later to see what they’ve built. It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now. Oh and another thing. I have never once hit my rate limit. I’ve got fairly close a few times but never hit it. Is it just me or what? I keep waiting for it to get worse, but it never does. submitted by /u/Quick_Ask_9004
Originally posted by u/Quick_Ask_9004 on r/ClaudeCode