I used to work as a software engineer, so I’m used to understanding at least roughly how things work under the hood. With Claude Code, I can build things in a few hours that would have taken me a week before. And the crazy part is that the results are often better, too. But I’m struggling with something: control. It’s hard for me to let go of the need to understand how Claude is actually solving problems. I don’t need to understand every line of code, but I still want to have a reasonable mental model of what’s happening. And keeping up with that is mentally exhausting. I feel like the speed of development has increased dramatically, but my ability to process and understand what’s being built hasn’t. So I’m curious how others deal with this, especially people with a software engineering background. Do you still try to understand how everything works? Have you learned to let go and trust the results? Or have you found some middle ground? How do you manage the mental load? submitted by /u/Excellent_Soil7102
Originally posted by u/Excellent_Soil7102 on r/ClaudeCode