Claude helped me

Claude helped me build a thing. There, I’ve admitted it, not that my use of LLMs has ever been a secret. But this was a big thing, a thing I could not have done on my own. I know because I tried, some years ago, and even with good help failed. Then I thought, I know what I want and I know how to break the overall task down into chunks and I know how to check that each chunk works the way I want it to before moving on. So I bought into a month of Claude. I also took the trouble to read a bit about best practices and learned the importance of planning before coding and of clearing the context fairly often. So I sat down and wrote an overall plan for the project. I wrote a couple of rules to work by. And a little more than a week ago, Claude started work with me as project manager. We did less than an hour a day. It went brilliantly. There were times when Claude uncovered problems I had not anticipated. And there were times when I was able to suggest better ways to fix things. Each…