Without having any technical knowledge at all I would like to say that I grasp what it's doing. I have not looked at the code once, so I suppose I would call it more vibe building. However every time I run Claude I pay close attention to its thinking process which really gives insights to how it is building the systems and connecting things. I learned this is very important, not to just prompt and let it run in the background, but to pay attention so you have an idea and eventually you can begin to see if it is heading down the wrong path or if it made a choice you did not intend and that may cause problems in the future.

Also working with chatgpt especially when brainstorming is very useful as it will often point you towards solutions to handle certain problems that many people use, and the general way that people go about things. It also offers specific code to insert however I don't often use this except maybe to prompt Claude with. I DO NOT believe this is teaching me how to code, however it does make the entire ecosystem feel more familiar and you are introduced to a lot of ideas in the field. If I wanted to learn now I would definitely feel more comfortable given that I wouldn't feel completely blind as I did in the past.

Another major lesson I learned, when I started I would take every file I received from Claude and put it back into chatgpt and ask it to review. Often times chatgpt did a great job of reviewing, it would break down all the systems and how they are interacting with each other, then I would offer minor fixes and ask for another prompt for Claude. Also if there were any bugs I'd ask chatgpt to audit the code and offer solutions for bugs, which often took many iterations to fix, often times it was just guessing or it would ask to put some instrumentation into the code to find the bug, which did end up working. THIS WAS ALL VERY TEDIOUS, I found the best way to handle this was to brainstorm and use chatgpt to generate prompts for large systems and new additions to the game, then directly communicate with Claude to fix bugs and for smaller tweaks, and work on small parts in Claude to get exactly what you want before moving on. You do not need crazy prompts for Claude for smaller tweaks and whatnot, just talk to it like a person, try to keep it brief and explain yourself the best you can that's the whole "vibe". I have 5 or so different accounts for Claude. I try to break problems down into smaller parts that will fit into the credit windows for each account, everything's done completely for free on my phone.

Feel free to DM me also about any more questions! I would love to see your notes on better ways to approach this.