Mixed
I will give it a specific example of code to use as a guide and it just wants to start searching the code base for similar patterns instead of just using the example that has everything it should need
hexad74 on Hacker News
In the thread “I used Claude Code to write a piano web app”
Helped: Getting decent results despite the tool ignoring specific examples.
Got in the way: Tool searches codebase instead of using provided examples.
This might not exactly be the place for it but what I struggle with regarding Claude Code is that it doesn't seem to listen to me. I will give it a specific example of code to use as a guide and it just wants to start searching the code base for similar patterns instead of just using the example that has everything it should need. I know claude.md can help but I am not having much luck with a large .NET project using internal nuget packages. …