I've been using Claude to great effect to work my way through ideas and poke holes in my reasoning. Prompting it with "what am I missing?", "what should I look

I've been using Claude to great effect to work my way through ideas and poke holes in my reasoning. Prompting it with "what am I missing?", "what should I look out for?" and "what are my options?" frequently exposes something that I did miss. I need to be the architect and know what to ask and know what I don't know. Given that, Claude is a trusty rubber duck at worst and a detective at best. It then suggests a repository pattern despite the code using active directory. There is no shortcut for understanding.