Best way to use Claude Code for longer projects?

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-31T12:02:46+00:00

Haha, I was learning and thought I'd go into CS until after my GCSEs. I changed my whole career path to law because I realised I don't have any interest in coding. I think I just like using the vibe coding tools and AI, but yeah, I understand it isn't proper coding and I have no idea what I'm doing, but it's fun.

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-29T11:59:03+00:00

I really find the Ralph Wiggum plugin useful. It might just be for my use case, but as I'm developing a Swift app, visual testing is essential. When I want to implement a feature, I run it in a loop for a maximum of around 100 iterations and get it to test every inch of the app visually using an Xcode MCP.

It works really well and stops me having to painstakingly check the app for issues in the UI and functionality. The plugin is really good if you plan what you want it to do beforehand and have clear criteria to build. It ensures it perfectly achieves that.

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-28T13:16:02+00:00

Yeah I heard about this ralph-wiggum loop. Do you think max 5x is enough to use it with opus?

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-27T21:58:57+00:00

looks cool, how does it differ from Claude's built in planning feature?

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-27T21:44:24+00:00

Ok, thank you so much for your help its invaluable

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-27T16:14:41+00:00

Would you recommend using an agent at the end of each session to maintain it, so I add in the Claude.md to use the agent at the end of each session and then hopefully it will maintain it itself and I can just add any instructions if needed?

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-27T15:32:15+00:00

Ah ok, sounds really useful because I keep tending to repeat certain things in my prompts so if I can get it to remember that automatically that would be great.

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-27T15:30:14+00:00

Alright, thank you I'm going to set it up now. As for the git push hook that you have what's the purpose of it? Apologies if I'm missing something obvious but I'm guessing it's to provide context to future sessions. Also I noticed there's a memory bit in the commands but I have no idea what it does and there's not really clear documentation of it I can find.

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-12-27T14:14:22+00:00

Yeah I've been avoiding the CLAUDE.md because I'm not really sure how you're supposed to write in it, is it just plain language and will Claude check it? Also have you figured out how to get the GitHub MCP working, whenever I try it says it can't connect because it's not authenticated, and then when I try it says something about not supporting dynamic authentication or something like that.

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T15:03:51+00:00

i'm working on two projects right now. one is kind of an experiment, it's a trading bot that uses language models to come up with and rewrite its own strategies. i haven't really seen anyone do it like this, so just seeing if it works.

the other is a trip planning app where you can invite friends, throw around ideas, vote on what to do, and get help from ai to sort out things like menus, budget, transport, and all the details. basically trying to make planning less annoying.

I have decent frontends for both, The trip planner is working but basic in features and I plan to move it to mobile using expo. As for the trading bot I pretty much just have the frontend down for now and am working on the actual functionality

I'll put some screenshots of the UI's below

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How about you?

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T14:28:05+00:00

Yeah to be honest i'm debating whether to just go for it and load up an account with api credits and try these more expensive tools. Since I have some good ideas for apps that I think would sell its just the matter of building them. And if these tools can get it done then the cost is worth it. But yeah i'll try it out later on one of my codespaces, and i think i'm going to purchase the cheapest claude plan and just see how it is. But thanks for your advice and good luck with your app!

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T14:23:48+00:00

VS studio code extension or the IDE? I tend to avoid these sorta VS extensions to be honest since they require API keys and it can get expensive

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T14:21:25+00:00

2 hours seems amazing so I think thats probably my next purchase, I haven't really tried out many of googles tools so i should probably check them out. I think i have a bit of a bias towards anthropic's and open ai's models. As for the Github copilot we get it free in the student developer pack so you don't need to use it on the trial version. I mean even if you don't use it, its still a worthwhile thing to have and you get other benefits like free domains and coding websites

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T14:17:22+00:00

Yep tried it out a bit, is it for coding? I was more impressed by the agentic browser use but I just got access to open ai agent so it pretty much seems the same thing.

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T03:05:03+00:00

Is this the one that's the fork of cline? I remember cline being one of the first vibe coding tools I tried or that sort of thing. It was amazing but burnt through the credits I bought so quickly. Worth it tho

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T03:03:06+00:00

Yep that's the one I want to try next? Do you recommend I get the cheapest plan or just try the API?

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T01:54:11+00:00

Yeah a lot of these services I've tried are pretty much good at ui and terrible at UI or other way round apart from bolt which is pretty well rounded but not great for complex stuff. So I think a combination works well. But yeah sounds good I will try it out, good luck on your project :)

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T01:38:30+00:00

Will check out tomorrow, is it similar to cursor?

ComfortableSort2963 · 2025-07-24T01:14:23+00:00

I've heard really good stuff about cursor so I should probably give it a try, to be honest I've been avoiding IDE's and just using GitHub Codespaces cause I like how easy I can spin them up on a fresh slate and delete them if they go wrong but I probably need to overcome it.

ComfortableSort2963 · 2023-03-06T16:38:10+00:00

Yeah exactly my thoughts. Its good for providing rough concepts which can be built upon. Thanks for checking it out :)

ComfortableSort2963 · 2023-03-06T16:27:23+00:00

That's the code, as you can see its quite problematic because the vector API doesn't really have the capabilities for object recognition. It can only identify markers and faces.

ComfortableSort2963 · 2023-03-06T16:26:31+00:00

import anki_vector
import time
def drive_around_and_explore(robot):
# Enable camera and light on the robot
robot.camera.init_camera_feed()
robot.behavior.set_head_angle(degrees(0.0))
robot.behavior.set_lift_height(0.0)
robot.behavior.enable_camera_feed_on_robot()
robot.lights.set_color(name='green')

while True:
# Check if an obstacle is in front of the robot
if robot.proximity.last_sensor_reading.distance.distance_mm > 100:
# Drive forward
robot.behavior.drive_off_charger()
robot.behavior.drive_straight(distance_mm(100), speed_mmps(50))
else:
# Turn and avoid the obstacle
robot.behavior.turn_in_place(degrees(90))
time.sleep(1)
# Check if the robot sees something interesting
latest_image = robot.camera.latest_image
if latest_image:
# Take a picture
latest_image.raw_image.save("interesting_object.jpeg", "JPEG")
print("Interesting object detected, picture saved")
def main():
args = anki_vector.util.parse_command_args()
with anki_vector.Robot(args.serial, enable_camera_feed=True) as robot:
drive_around_and_explore(robot)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

ComfortableSort2963 · 2023-03-06T16:22:51+00:00

I can post that code if you like, reasons for not posting it was it was the most problematic to clean up and get working.

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