A developer shares a workflow tip for using Claude as a coding assistant on larger projects: having Claude maintain a 'handoff document' that summarizes what was planned and done, then committing a polished version of that document to the repository. The key insight is that developers who wouldn't bother writing documentation for human teammates will readily let Claude generate it, and the result is genuinely useful project documentation with minimal effort. The author reviews and edits Claude's summaries before committing, treating it like supervising a human programmer.
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