Less Impressed, More Involved: A Guide to Using Claude Code Effectively

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shriracha · 2h ago

I appreciate the nuanced take here. LLMs have definitely made certain tasks easier, and therefor let me build ou features I wouldn't have had time to before (i.e. the theme picker example from the blog post)... but I am increasingly finding myself susceptible to the "tumbleweed effect" you describe, where an LLM can start to feel like more of a crutch than a tool.

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Less Impressed, More Involved: A Guide to Using Claude Code Effectively

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