Greetings, I’m a guy in IT who wasted 2 years with a developer starting back in mid-2024 who decided to create the same project using Claude Code. I began on Aug 17, last month, and in 2 days, it will have been a full 30 days and I’ve basically gotten my product 90% built and ready to sell to the general public. I’ve shied away from using AI really until this year, mainly out of ignorance and lack of curiosity with the ever-changing of LLM and their uses. I started with using ChatGPT daily and moving into vibe coding for the first time ever as I know my product could have success if it was brought to fruition. Fast-forward to 30 days of using ClaudeCode (CC). Most of you here are veterans and have either 5X or 20X subscriptions and have been using CC for about a year. You’ve seen it grow from something that sped up your productivity to now, something that frustrates the hell out of you with the usage limits, mistakes, dishonest from Anthropic, etc. I’ve come into CC late in the game and for one am amazed that I can dictate ideas into the coded Ether that is CC and actually get a fully-functional website with a dev environment. I’ve learned so much about GitHub, the logic and processes of professional programming, the proper order of pushing and testing code and the limitations of various free-tier subscriptions that need investment to make your coding ideas become a reality. My first biggest mistake was just using Claude Desktop. I was met with a ton of friction regarding CC in Desktop being able to hit some of my hosts, APIs and even researching .swagger/JSONs online. I bit the bullet and moved to Claude CLI and was met with a Claude that was practically unstoppable with my requests. The interface isn’t sexy, no CLI is, but hot-damn does it connect to practically any SSH/API you want it to. Another huge mistake I made were super long coding sessions, directly to main without a single PR being made in the beginning. I think I had 45 code pushes in GH before I learned about doing proper PRs. You all often say make every feature a PR and I felt slowed down having to do each feature, one at a time As a neophyte in this space I would say the greatest frustration for me, regarding CC is not just these usage-limits being nerfed, but it’s also learning the token-maxxing methods which seem counter-intuitive to how most of us work. CC and it’s panache for losing context over long sessions is an annoying feature of the AI LLMs because us humans want to hunker down for 1-3 hours and get some serious coding done. Having to feed a session-handoff.md after 100k-250k tokens, clearing your session, having CC catch up and starting fresh, rinse repeat, becomes tiresome. For those of you whose profession is programming and having your sprint-times exacerbated with CC’s ability to whip up code faster than any hands could type, I can only imagine the bottlenecks of these models across CC, Codex, Astra, etc. locking you out after so little time coding. All this to say, CC is frustrating, but what a time to be alive!!! In 2026, I can take a 2 year project, done by a single-developer and have a machine, with my directives integrate 5-6 Internet services into my project and actually deliver something that will help me with cash-flow in a few weeks. The session and model limits are total bs, but it’s so encouraging to have these tools available to us who are curious enough to execute in our professional careers and side hustles. I am a bit fearful for the future of the model-limiting that OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are instituting, because what takes some of you now a few days or weeks to do could be extended with their processing/token limiting when we’re paying good money for such an incredible service. Again, I preface this with I am not a programmer, it’s not my forte. One of my bosses previously asked me if I had to choose between networking or programming, which would I choose? I told him, “Help Desk”. You programmers are an entirely different breed and CC has made me realize how insane it must be to know so many programming languages and how you all had to do this by hand a few years ago!!! submitted by /u/Frostitut
Originally posted by u/Frostitut on r/ClaudeCode
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