I was using regular Claude Projects and was recently recommended to try Claude Code. Honestly, I was extremely disappointed. It feels like massive hype. I spent an entire day watching YouTube videos that didn’t really explain anything useful. The same goes for GitHub—there are lots of guides, but at the end of the day none of them solved my problems. My experience with Claude Code has been crazy compared to using the web chat version. It’s the same model, the same reasoning capabilities, but the behavior is completely different. Let me explain what I mean. I tell it that all the tools it needs are already defined in file X, and all it has to do is look them up and write a simple piece of code that uses those tools. The web chat version would have no issue doing that. Claude Code, however, goes on an adventure trying to find that information in files that were never mentioned and obviously don’t contain what it’s looking for. After failing to find it, it starts searching other locations and even wants to execute search scripts in folders that I never granted access to. This is the point where I completely lost my patience. I double-checked the permissions and confirmed that access was granted to only one folder, yet it was still trying to look for things outside the permitted area. As for writing code, it doesn’t even seem to follow the instructions. All the rules, descriptions, and implementation details are clearly documented in Claude.md. Instead of following them, it generates random code with new hard-coded settings. The actual solution only requires about 50 lines of code to generate some tables, but it keeps creating unnecessary complexity. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. submitted by /u/Illustrious_Ad7630
Originally posted by u/Illustrious_Ad7630 on r/ClaudeCode