I've also dodged bullets doing greenfield development on some features where Claude (my default) has made what seemed like sound choices early on, and which I approved of, only to build something fragile or with unforseen consequences

… I've had good luck refactoring a small code base, building some small hobby projects and building features for our company's product. But, I've also dodged bullets doing greenfield development on some features where Claude (my default) has made what seemed like sound choices early on, and which I approved of, only to build something fragile or with unforseen consequences. I haven't quite figured out what distinguished those situations from the successful ones but I'm trying. …