Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?

Not so experienced with Claude Code, but the web version does the job for me. I mean, I don't create very complex stuff for others (mostly websites and simple apps) but it did some things that I am proud of (I'm not a dev - have some exp with python, but even that is really basic stuff. So, here's what I do (makes it really easy to do stuff (at least simple stuff I do): - Start a new project and discuss every single detail about it with Claude. - Tell it to write a txt or pdf summary of everything and place that file in project knowledge. - After that tell it to give you a complete project structure and create it - Then simply start populating the files. - Place each file in your project knowledge so it can see it After this it's just debugging which mostly goes smooth as well

I've been playing with it for almost two years now, and this is what gets me there. ChatGPT never got even close to it.

This has been my experience as well. I get drained at the end, and I spent most of my energy and thinking capacity dealing with the LLM instead of the problem space.

I used this entire HN discussion as the input to a design/task SKILL.md. I asked Claude to prepare the design document and a task list. When it was done, I asked it to implement the task list.

I got this: https://github.com/hughdbrown/visualize-grid-layouts.git

You can follow how this all happened by looking in `docs/design/`.

The SKILL.md had this description:

``` Collaboratively designs a new software feature with the developer. Explores the existing codebase to ground all technical decisions in the project's actual architecture, conventions, and dependencies. Produces two deliverables:

1. *Product Requirements Document (PRD)* — what the feature does, technical decisions, how it operates, and ordered implementation stages.

2. *Detailed Task List* — within each stage, test-first scoped steps covering tests to write, code to implement, config changes, environment variables, dependencies, and documentation.

Both deliverables are written to files in the project for reference during implementation. ```

You can get Claude to produce the skill for you, too.