You give your AI coding agent a task. It gets to work. Thirty tool calls later you have code — and it’s not what you needed. The agent understood the words but missed the intent. It made a dozen small decisions that individually seemed reasonable, and collectively built the wrong thing. This isn’t a capability […]
Read More →If you take one thing from Claude Code, make it this: Explore → Plan → Code → Commit. The developers who skip straight to “write me the code,” then spend the next hour arguing with the output. This workflow exists to prevent that. Explore Before writing a single line, Claude needs context. Without it, you get […]
Read More →A practical guide for developers navigating Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Codex, and beyond. You switch from Cursor to Claude Code. Or from Copilot to Windsurf. The interface is different. The shortcuts are different. The config file has a new name. And for a moment, it feels like you’re starting from scratch. You’re not. Under […]
Read More →Claude Code isn’t a chatbot that suggests code. It’s an autonomous agent that inhabits your terminal, reads your entire codebase, runs commands, edits files, commits changes, and iterates until the job is done — all from a single natural language instruction. Table of contents The Fundamental Shift: From Autocomplete to Autonomous Agent To understand what […]
Read More →A practical walkthrough of the full CLAUDE.md hierarchy, using a healthcare startup as the example. Table of Contents Every time you launch a Claude Code session, the agent starts with a blank slate. It doesn’t remember your tech stack, your HIPAA obligations, your naming conventions, or the fact that nobody should ever touch the migrations/ folder without […]
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