5 things I stopped doing in Claude Code after 1,000 hours.
1 - Running one session until it died. The longer it goes the worse it gets, and compacting doesn't save it. Now I end it early, create a handoff.md file and start a fresh session.
2 - Saying "make it better". Better isn't an instruction. Now I say what better actually means before Claude touches anything.
3 - Reading every line it wrote. I was watching it work instead of checking what it made. Now I look at the finished thing and I don't caret oo much how it got there.
4 - Letting the same mistake happen twice. It'd make a call I didn't like, I'd correct it, and a week later it did the exact same thing. Now the moment I'm not happy with something I go and update the skill, so it doesn't repeat.
5 - Diving straight in. I'd have an idea and just start telling it what to do. Now nothing gets built until there's a plan that I've approved.
Every one of those has cost me hundreds of hours on my journey but none of them are technical fixes.
Most people think they need to learn more.
Usually you need to stop doing about five things.
Anything else you want to add to that list?