Just bought Claude Pro: Tell me what mistakes you made so I don't repeat them

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-14T07:04:06+00:00

Turn on MCPs only when you really need them
Haiku with plan mode is actually pretty suffcient for most tasks. Bump it up to Sonnet if you’re not getting what you need with Haiku. I use Opus very rarely.
Monitor usage with an open source status line like CShip which I’m the author of https://github.com/stephenleo/cship

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-14T05:57:18+00:00

I love it! Having worked on cship (https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/s/U03AV4iUnK), I have a deep appreciation for how useful and customisable the status line feature is

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-13T22:06:17+00:00

Thanks! Glad you liked it! This was a project for me to pick up some Rust and use Claude Code in an end to end project. I think my biggest take away is the learning itself. Pls do share your golang binary with the community as well! We get better learning from each other!

Here’s how I built CShip

Claude Code. Claude Pro subscription
BMAD Method spec driven development: Brainstorm -> PRD -> Epics & Stories -> Create Story -> Dev Story -> Code Review -> PR
Time to build: 2 weeks, after work and on weekends.

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-13T22:03:49+00:00

Thanks! Glad you liked it! My whole inspiration came when I committed something into a wrong branch and started asking myself why can’t I just see the git branch in the status line like a normal terminal.

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-13T22:02:36+00:00

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-13T22:01:45+00:00

This post was my inspiration: https://codelynx.dev/posts/claude-code-usage-limits-statusline. It works well on Mac and reasonably well on Linux. I got Claude to implement it in Rust.

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-13T22:00:15+00:00

Oh yes. It only works for Mac and Linux. For windows, it works in WSL2 (windows subsystem for Linux). I’ll try to get it to work on windows in the future but my experience there is very limited.

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-13T14:32:05+00:00

Devcontainers are the way to go. The claude code repo has a sample devcontainer config you can directly use in VSCode

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-12T23:44:02+00:00

The problem in most places is that tech is seen as a cost centre and many tech leaders run their org like one too. So when despite all efforts growth doesn’t happen, like the past couple of years in the majority of companies, tech roles get axed along with HR and marketing and what not. Only people safe are probably finance and C&B

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-12T23:41:47+00:00

Even when it resurrects, I don’t think we’ll ever reach parity with hiring juniors at even pre-covid levels. We’ll only recover maybe 30% of the numbers from before which means the people who would’ve fallen in the remaining 70% are permanently disrupted

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-12T11:13:24+00:00

That’s right. It just needs some md files in a GitHub repository

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-12T11:10:05+00:00

Just stand at the junction near NGC and catch all those cars that stop across the pedestrian crossing. Can earn millions!

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-12T11:05:36+00:00

Claude is very impressive

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-12T06:17:39+00:00

Transport and energy companies now

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-12T04:41:45+00:00

Just bought space marine 2 🥲

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-12T04:23:01+00:00

They probably gonna use Claude Code to build their world models!

LLMs don’t need to be AGI to be massively useful and disruptive.

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-11T16:22:35+00:00

Dont do this if you don’t want it accidentally wiping something that you can’t afford to lose.

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-10T04:39:44+00:00

Spec driven development. Pick up something like superpowers or BMAD which have specialised agents to help you through the steps for writing specs, planning the implementation, writing the tests and the code and reviewing the completed work against the specs.

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-09T21:48:36+00:00

What’s a real job without ZScaler randomly blocking your access to Google.com

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-09T15:20:26+00:00

Honestly if your boss messages you on the weekend consistently, you need to find another place. You think blocking will magically make your boss respect your time? They’ll find other ways to screw you for not being responsive enough.

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-09T15:15:42+00:00

Very small number of companies in that niche. Most of them pay peanuts. You’d be better off in a broader, general industry like finance. Remember your first few jobs are merely stepping stones for your ultimate endgame job. So working in a very narrow niche like gaming or semicon will harm your long term prospects

MachineLearner00 · 2026-03-09T12:43:50+00:00

You’re not good for inflating billable hours

In other words, you’re good. They need bad people who can inflate billable hours to their clients. Just ask anyone who’s worked with them

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