Claude

Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant, and Claude Code is its terminal-native interface for software development. It can read codebases, edit files, run commands, plan approaches, write tests, and work through multi-step tasks with varying degrees of autonomy.

The tool is capable. The more interesting question is what it takes to use it well — and that question turns out to be less about prompting and more about system design. How you configure it, what context you give it, where you draw the delegation boundary, how you enforce standards that can’t be left to discretion.

The teams getting real value from Claude aren’t the ones with the best prompts. They’re the ones who treated it as infrastructure: a CLAUDE.md that’s kept current, a .claude/ folder committed to the repo, hooks that enforce what matters, and a clear sense of what to hand off and what to own.

Posts here cover the practical side of working with Claude — individual workflow, team setup, configuration patterns, and the honest questions about craft that come with it.