I was using Claude Code wrong — here's the workflow that fixed it (opens in new tab)

I've been using Claude Code on production projects for several months. It's genuinely impressive at writing code. But I kept shipping features that technically worked and architecturally misfired. The problem wasn't the code quality. It was that I was handing the AI a task and letting it decide — implicitly, mid-implementation — what the system should actually do. Those decisions were buried in commits, invisible to review, and untraceable to any requirement. I was using Claude Code as a repl...