I feel like I am doing something wrong with all the success stories I am reading. I followed the different workflows I have seen here like creating a detailed plans and writing extensive prompts and guardrails. Tried using instructions and skills yet I never get a satisfactory results at least in existing code bases.
The other day I needed to implement a feature that already had very detailed instructions and planning yet the agent gave me very low quality code riddled with naive mistakes. As I knew what should be done I discarded all the changes proposed by the agent and wrote the entire thing with the help of autocomplete in VSCode which was incredible as long as write a meaningful function names and comments it and managed to finish the entire feature in one day thanks to that and I believe that was much cheaper than all my failed attempts at agentic coding.
How do you guys yield good results from Claude Code and the likes of it?
The other day I needed to implement a feature that already had very detailed instructions and planning yet the agent gave me very low quality code riddled with naive mistakes. As I knew what should be done I discarded all the changes proposed by the agent and wrote the entire thing with the help of autocomplete in VSCode which was incredible as long as write a meaningful function names and comments it and managed to finish the entire feature in one day thanks to that and I believe that was much cheaper than all my failed attempts at agentic coding.
How do you guys yield good results from Claude Code and the likes of it?