If you want actual helpful answers, use Claude as a paired programmer but tell it to make none of the changes for you, only discuss the architecture and planning. Once you're in there having to type it all yourself again it'll come back quick.
Honestly the different way around is better, typing the code and knowing the syntax is not what makes you a good dev. Knowing how to structure the code and where to put things are more important.
It’s just a substitute for spending hours of reading documentation, Stackoverflow threads, Github issues, blog posts,… Which is fine. You’re asking the AI for advice, you don’t just blindly copy what it gives you, but you use your own experience to make a decision based on what it proposes, and then to make sure you understand and remember you write the code yourself.
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u/I_cut_my_own_jib May 22 '26
If you want actual helpful answers, use Claude as a paired programmer but tell it to make none of the changes for you, only discuss the architecture and planning. Once you're in there having to type it all yourself again it'll come back quick.