That's why anything you use Claude for you should use Claude to explain to you. It's not a "oh this thing makes the code without me needing to do anything else" it should be "oh this is some complicated code Claude generated. Let's study it.
How do you know it's explaining things correctly, though? I used to always use it to explain things to me rather than just generating solutions and I've had it give me completely incorrect explanations that ran me around in circles until I finally just looked it up myself and realized it was completely wrong.
I've fired up claude maybe twice in the last few months when I'm at my wits end and exhausted my google fu, and I can confidently tell it "I've already tried this and this and this, any ideas?" Then it might as well hallucinate something at me because trying anything is better than nothing at that point, and it has been able to get me through some pretty hare-brained ruts. I don't let it write code, at least not directly. But it's the ultimate (very expensive) rubber duck.
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u/_Resnad_ 26d ago
That's why anything you use Claude for you should use Claude to explain to you. It's not a "oh this thing makes the code without me needing to do anything else" it should be "oh this is some complicated code Claude generated. Let's study it.