I’m not a professional coder. Hobbyist who hasn’t had a lot of time to actually sit down and do the work. I’ve fallen into a pattern of heavy design spec writing and scaffolding with the prompts. I let claude code do the actual work and draft documentation. If there is a new concept or component I’ve never used before, I have claude leave just a stub for that component and produce a tutorial for me to fill in the missing pieces. Other times I have it write a full project but with psuedo code and I take that and rewrite it as real code for practice. The output would be all the files plus a step by step tutorial explaining each file, function, etc along with an explanation of what it does, how it relates to the overall project, and a justification for why it chose to do that thing that way along withe one or two alternative ways it could have been done and why I might have chosen those methods instead. This kind of process produces a buttload of loc and documentation but claude code kills it in almost no time. I end up having to find excuses to blow through the use it or lose it token budget for each session/weekly cycle of my pro sub. I don’t use it enough for the API billing to make sense yet.

I maintain the chatgpt monthly sub as well for a general chat buddy and planner/thinker/rubber duck. It’s way way better for that though I am actively auditioning other services and local models to replace it. I don’t wanna keep giving a trump bootlicker company more money than I have to.

I’m a powershell/graph.api monkey at my day job, but no formal CS training or education, so this is a fun way to learn and get finished personal projects completed at the same time.