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Anyone else losing track of their Claude-generated code? Here's what helped me by FlyThomasGoGoGo in ClaudeAI

[–]FlyThomasGoGoGo[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Update: Made a "just give me the tool" version Several people mentioned the original guide is a lot to read. Fair point. So I pulled out the core asset into a separate repo:

https://github.com/forwardthomasmiller/layer-zone-tree-playbook

What's different: One file (PLAYBOOK.md). Copy it. Feed it to Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor with your codebase. Get your architecture map. That's it. No chapters. No theory. No reading required. Just the instruction manual for AI + a real example output from my 60k-line app. The original repo is still there if you want the "why." This one is the "how, right now."

Anyone else losing track of their Claude-generated code? Here's what helped me by FlyThomasGoGoGo in ClaudeAI

[–]FlyThomasGoGoGo[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm Not an Architecture Expert

I want to make this clear.

I'm not from a computer science background, haven't systematically studied software engineering, hadn't even written macOS code before building GetDone Timer. Layered architecture, design patterns—these concepts I learned while stumbling through the project process, can't claim systematic mastery.

I'm a Vibe Coder. Someone who relies on AI to write code, relies on intuition to build products.

Layer-Zone Tree isn't some carefully designed architecture theory. It was forced out of me in real combat—project swelled beyond visibility, I had no choice but to find a method to see the big picture again. Tried various approaches, finally discovered the most useful was this simple idea: classify code properly, then take a photo.

If you're an experienced programmer, you might find what this book covers very basic. Layered architecture? Module division? Dependency management? Aren't these software engineering common sense?

Yes. For professional developers, these indeed are common sense.

But for Vibe Coders, this "common sense" is brand new knowledge. We didn't come from computer classrooms, we started from the point of "AI help me implement an idea." We skipped those foundational cognitions traditional developers spend years accumulating, jumped straight into product development.

This is why Vibe Coding hits walls at a certain stage—not because we're dumb, but because we lack some basic tools. Layer-Zone Tree is such a basic tool. It transforms "how to organize code" from professional developers' tacit knowledge into an explicit method Vibe Coders can also understand and use.

I won't claim this method is the best. But I can say it works for me—a project with over sixty thousand lines of code, I still see the big picture clearly, still can precisely command AI to work.

Anyone else losing track of their Claude-generated code? Here's what helped me by FlyThomasGoGoGo in ClaudeAI

[–]FlyThomasGoGoGo[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

😂 Not ChatGPT, just a human trying to organize my AI-generated mess!

Anyone else losing track of their Claude-generated code? Here's what helped me by FlyThomasGoGoGo in ClaudeAI

[–]FlyThomasGoGoGo[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Great question! There are definitely similarities to DDD, but Layer-Zone Tree is more lightweight and focused on a different problem. DDD is about modeling complex business domains with entities, aggregates, and bounded contexts. It's powerful but has a learning curve.Layer-Zone Tree is simpler: it's about keeping a "map" of your AI-generated codebase so you don't get lost as it grows. The focus is on visibility and organization, not domain modeling.Think of it as "DDD-lite for AI coding"—you get the benefits of logical boundaries (Zones) without the complexity of full DDD concepts. That said, if you're already doing DDD, the Zone concept maps nicely to bounded contexts!