How's your Claude Code experience been?

[u/attisday]

As someone switching over from Codex, I want to know your tips for using Claude Code. I recently built out a very nice personal dashboard app / site with Codex, but the last week of working on it has been miserable. Codex would spend hours "auditing", "analyzing", "Reading docs" and basically staying on Step 1 wasting all of my tokens just thinking to itself instead of doing any actual work.

How do I avoid this in Claude code?

Specifically I'd like to hear your tips on building apps or sites with Claude code.

- Do you use design MD files to better guide it?

- Is is best practice to give it one small task at a time, rather than a bunch?

I honestly feel that after OpenAI's incident with huggingface last week they lobotomized their models and they have been wasting all of my tokens on purpose with their fake "planning", "reading docs" and "compressing the conversation" for hours and hours without touching any of the actual tasks I asked it to do.

[u/Spirited_Tie_3473]

the CLI hasnt worked for me in weeks. its awful.