Using Claude Code as a code generator is the obvious approach, but the most valuable workflow turns out to be using it for project comprehension and terminal triage instead. Feeding it repo structure, terminal output, and config files to get oriented and make sense of messy sessions proves more durable than asking it to write code. Understanding the problem better leads to better code and faster debugging, even if that use case is less flashy than AI-generated implementation.
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Claude Code made more sense when I stopped treating it like a code machineThe workflow I liked most was really about terminal triageIt’s fair to expect a tool called Claude Code to focus on coding firstWhy this still felt like the better workflow by farWhere Claude Code actually earned a place in my routineSort: