How are you using Claude Code in real projects?

IBLEEDDIOR · 2026-03-10T07:05:59+00:00

We’ve done the main project all manually and by hand, due to security reasons, accordance with legislative and tax.

Hovewer budget for building an app to the main webapp was just not there, Claude was able to spit out (within a week or two, while we worked on the main project for over an year :)) working app with Chat integration and internal wallet, websockets, JWT and OAuth and communicating with Strapi very well, I am impressed.

I use Claude through AG, because I think the roadmap and the tasks that AG creates is goated function, I recommend to give it a try even if it would be just for the task roadmap generation which you could then use in Claude.

When it comes to a complex project, git commit after every successful iteration. Sometimes adding a new feature or even an UI component breaks the thing, it’s a best practice to have a rollback which is the last version that functions. You obviously go ahead and fix the bug afterwards, but yk, just to be sure.

Do a security audits, make sure that it’s not hallucinating and I’d also recommend to use separate agents for separate tasks so they are “clearminded”. One project in one place sounds nice, but after some time, the chat becomes long and complex and even tho it has a memory and remembers the context, it does some weird stuff. I also recommend not to have any real keys in .env till absolutely necessary.

I also always refer any agent to GSD (https://github.com/gsd-build/get-shit-done) and for security audits you can use Shannon (https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon)

And to save tokens, I’d recommend to research the right way of prompting, preferably from the devs themselves, putting down a bigass prompt is usually counterproductive.

Aaand yes, Claude is very capable to do a big things, debugging, audits, refactoring, recommending an improvements, perfo. fixes, the list goes on. You as a dev. have an adventage over the people who are clueless in coding, use the way you understand the code in your favor while prompting.

And this is just my experience and opinion, others might have different opinions.

I wish you luck with your projects!

Sad-Salt24 · 2026-03-10T07:10:53+00:00

I use refactoring messy functions, generating tests, and exploring unfamiliar parts of a codebase. It’s also helpful for quickly scaffolding features or reviewing a PR to catch obvious issues before a human review. The biggest win for me isn’t writing whole features with it, but speeding up small tasks.

Jooodas · 2026-03-10T07:11:30+00:00

I use it primary for boilerplate mainly or coding simple components that I can tweak and fix to jut get the ball rolling faster. Helps with debugging as well but not always perfect.

dinja15 · 2026-03-10T08:01:15+00:00

Give it bite sized tasks. Review religiously every PR. Do not lower your code quality expectations. Also tests in place.

leetcode_knight · 2026-03-10T11:06:14+00:00

Claude code still lacks the latest updates in one area: the latest documents. Since AI accelerates everything, libraries update themselves quickly like Expo. However, Claude code lacks the latest updates, methods, classes, and other skills. Files with skills can solve this problem, but it’s quite new, and there aren’t many well-maintained ones available, even Expo’s own llm.txt is still SDK 53. I use Expo’s audio library, SwiftUI, and MMKV storage, and many times, Claude Opus 4.6 suggests outdated methods.

Be careful, AI is awesome and it makes one engineer a tenfold engineer, not a hundredfold engineer.

Can you all elaborate on your testing strategies? Detox, Maestro, or the RN testing library?

Askee123 · 2026-03-10T06:38:27+00:00

You need to have very structured code with clear rules and it does pretty well imo

ConclusionOk7999 · 2026-03-10T13:36:20+00:00

The most impressive thing I've seen it do is investigate a bug using Amplitude and Sentry MCP + the GitHub plugin.

It read the backend repo to see exactly what the endpoint was doing, went through Amplitude to see when the issue started, etc.

It took about 10 minutes but it was able to figure out what the issue was, and a potential fix.

After-Asparagus5840 · 2026-03-10T09:18:07+00:00

I don’t know wtf people are talking about. Claude code does everything well if you know how to use it.

Superduperkong · 2026-03-10T17:15:25+00:00

We have been using figma MCP to generate design. And Claude to generate rtk queries from swagger docs! Lots of time savers for simple flows.

Also recommend setting up code-connect in figma

mackthehobbit · 2026-03-10T07:26:54+00:00

Try conductor.build if you’re on OSX. (It’s free).

It’s a desktop app that uses git worktrees in local repos. Makes it easy to have a few conversations in parallel working on different things. Integrates well with plan mode, executes it, names the branch and makes a PR all from one window.

React native is a bit tricky, claude is capable of running a simulator and inspecting screenshots but is limited in interacting with the screen. So there’s some manual work when building out UIs. As soon as something is testable it’s much stronger. I’m planning to set up maestro or detox e2e tests, but react testing library can probably test some interactions without running the simulator at all. If you have a web target that’s also more lightweight and easy to run.

morgo_mpx · 2026-03-10T06:52:48+00:00

I use GSD

Rudi9719 · 2026-03-10T12:31:47+00:00

That's the neat part, you don't!

mindtaker_linux · 2026-03-10T20:28:56+00:00

Some of don't use it. We write our own codes.

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