> I ask it to redo everything from scratch. This reminds me of someone who dropped into #java on undernet once upon a time in the 90s. "I can't get it to work

> I ask it to redo everything from scratch. This reminds me of someone who dropped into #java on undernet once upon a time in the 90s. "I can't get it to work" , and we kept trying to debug, and for some reason we kept hitting random new walls. It just never would work! Turns out that they were deleting their .java file and starting over each time. Don't do that. --- Take it as a sequence of exercises. Maybe start like this: Don't use claude code at all to begin with. It's a pair programming exercise, and you start at the keyboard, where you're confident and in control. Have claude open in the web interface alongside, talk through the design with it while working; and ask to google stuff for you, look up the api, maybe ask if it remembers the best way(s) to approach the problem. Once you trust it a bit, maybe ask for code snippets or even entire functions. They can't be 100% correct because it doesn't have context... you might need to paste in some code to begin with. When there's errors, paste them in, maybe you'll get advice. If you're comfy? Switch seats, start using claude code. Now you're telling claude what to do. And you can still ask the same questions you were asking before. But now you don't need to paste into the web interface anymore, and the AI sure as heck can type faster than you can. Aren't you getting tired of every iteration where you're telling the AI "this went wrong", " that went wrong"? Maybe make sure there's a way for the AI to test stuff itself, so it can iterate a few cycles automatically. Your LLM can iterate through troubleshooting steps faster than you can type the first one. Still... keep an eye on it. And, really that's about where I am now.