Sabrina Ramonov 🍄
Here’s how I use Claude Code, the ultimate AI coding tool, to implement new features in an existing complex codebase with many users. This is not a vibe coding tutorial building throwaway MVPs.
This AI coding guide is for software developers who want to improve their daily AI coding workflows, maintain a clean production-grade codebase, and reduce bugs introduced by AI.
I walk through my CLAUDE.md file containing AI coding rules, then implement a real feature from scratch, following a structured step-by-step process.
You still need to be hands-on involved, push back on AI plans, stop it from going down the wrong rabbit hole, question the code, and test extensively.
I typically start in “normal mode” (not Planning mode), then transition to “auto accept edits mode” when Claude starts coding
discuss my user story with Claude and make a plan, making sure to simplify it as much as possible, remove unnecessary features or optimizations, and question anything sketchy
