TheSylvester

Claude Code: A Practical Field Guide

Your exploration session is the worst one to implement the solution.

You've spent an hour exploring a codebase with Claude. You ask it to implement the fix—and it repeats mistakes, forgets what you discussed, or gets confused. LLMs anchor to their own outputs, repeat errors, and degrade at 20% context fill.

The fix: explore in one session, execute in a fresh one.

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Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

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General rules

1. Follow standard conventions.
2. Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
3. Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
4. Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules