Email: 5 reasons “this won’t work in my codebase” isn’t true

Subject:
5 reasons “this won’t work in my codebase” isn’t true
Received:
3/25/2026, 4:01:51 PM
From:
"Matt Pocock (AI Hero)" <matt@aihero.dev>
To:
porch.hat.81@rss.andrealin.it
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&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Did you watch the new &lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/27uq3orpvvaoh89pez0a3hg3xrpqnighnn44p/8ghqh3uodoodpxbk/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NjLWNvaG9ydC0wMDMtZTYtdmlkZW8=" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1842485285"&gt;“Real World Feature Build”&lt;/a&gt; video I dropped on Monday?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;In the past few days, thousands of developers have already watched me use the AI Hero Engineering Workflow to build a new feature with Claude Code from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;The feedback has been encouraging, and I’ve learned a lot about what’s resonating with all of you:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;"This is the tutorial I needed 3 months ago. The zero slop part is key. Most people give up because their first attempts generate garbage. It's the structured approach that makes it work."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;"50% planning, 20% implementation, 30% QA. Nice!"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;"It's crazy how much more intelligent the AI seems when you speak in specifics."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;"Before I even start the video - I was one of those people saying 'Show us doing it' and I just want to say you are a gigantic PRO for doing it."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;At the same time, my &lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/27uq3orpvvaoh89pez0a3hg3xrpqnighnn44p/m2h7h6u3533508cm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NjLWNvaG9ydC0wMDMtZTYtZ3JpbGw=" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1842485288"&gt;/grill-me skill&lt;/a&gt; has gone viral and has over 9.4k stars on GitHub and counting. It might be one of the most valuable freebies I’ve ever shared, I even use it in projects where I’m not coding.  But there's one kind of critique that keeps showing up "...this works fine for solo products, but it doesn't work for larger codebases with paying customers."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;"This looks decent for a one man team, but how would you even manage this in a real repo?"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;"Curious how the 'no slop' holds up when the agent confidently rewrites a util file that 4 other modules depend on."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Now, I think it’s smart to bring a healthy dose of skepticism to any AI discourse, and I don’t blame anybody for being suspicious.  These tools DO have limitations, and in &lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/27uq3orpvvaoh89pez0a3hg3xrpqnighnn44p/e0hph0u7v77vwqb8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NjLWNvaG9ydC0wMDMtZTY=" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1842485290"&gt;Claude Code for Real Engineers&lt;/a&gt; we cover those limitations early and in depth.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;But the most common failure points – including the ones above – all trace back to a handful of specific, fixable mistakes in how people are using their AI coding tools, rather than limitations of the tools themselves.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Now that I’ve learned how to avoid these failure points entirely, I am consistently amazed by the quality code that I get from Claude Code every time I use it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;So today, I want to take a closer look at those mistakes and how you can avoid them in the first place, to.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Starting with…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;Mistake #1 - Losing track of your context window&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Every person has seen this at some point. When AI starts forgetting decisions or facts you’ve already discussed, contradicting itself, and producing messy or inconsistent code.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;And while these issues are common, they’re also pretty easy to avoid, if you understand how to monitor and best use your 200k token context window.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Think of the context window a bit like talking to a coworker. If you don’t tell them enough information, they have to guess and are more likely to make mistakes. But if you tell them TOO much information, they struggle to recall the right parts, at the right time, and make different kinds of mistakes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Similarly, whenever your agent is misbehaving, there’s a good chance that you’ve given it either too much info, or not enough.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Maybe you dumped too much information into the chat at the start of a session. Or you’ve connected a bunch of unused or unoptimized MCP servers that fill up the context. Or trying to load a huge codebase into context before working on a single feature (see Mistake #4).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Bottom line, understanding how context works and managing it deliberately is the single biggest unlock most developers miss.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;Mistake #2 - Jumping straight to code without a plan&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Let’s be honest - we’ve all probably made this mistake without AI, so we know exactly what happens.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;If you force your agent to start coding before you've walked through a full decision tree, you’re going to get code that solves the wrong problem - fast. This is a massive failure mode, and it's the same failure mode that has plagued software teams for decades.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;That's why the very first step in my workflow is the /grill-me skill - a skill that forces deeper thinking before any code gets written. When you know how to combine it with the /write-a-prd skill, your agent can work from a very clear and comprehensive plan to follow instead of fumbling around and making a mess.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;Mistake #3 - Working in a codebase the AI can't navigate&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Here's the one that might sting a little.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;If your codebase is hard for a new hire to navigate on their first day, it's going to be hard for AI too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Except it's worse - because AI doesn't learn your conventions over time the way a person does. It can't build that institutional knowledge.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;That means you need your conventions, decisions, and architecture surfaced explicitly - through documentation, clear structure, and good naming.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;The good news? Making your codebase AI-friendly makes it better for humans too. We cover this in the cohort with a skill I call /improve-codebase-architecture, and MUCH deeper in the course itself.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;Mistake #4 - Trying to do too much in one session&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;I gave a nod to this earlier in Mistake #1, but it's worth calling out on its own.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Every day, I see developers try to tackle a massive feature in a single session. They try to:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul style="margin:1em 0;margin-left:1em;padding:0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;list-style-position:outside !important"&gt;

&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;Describe the goal or task&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;Explore the existing codebase&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;Generate a bunch of code&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;Revise features&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;Identify and fix bugs&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em"&gt;Etc etc&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Before they’re done with the first step, the context fills up, the output quality drops, and they walk away thinking AI coding doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;The fix is breaking ALL of your work into focused, intentionally phased and carefully scoped tasks that the agent can work on and update as it loops through the entire scope of work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;In the cohort, you’ll learn how to approach this process with the most battle-tested best practices, from classics like The Pragmatic Programmer and Domain-Driven Design.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Codifying these lessons into repeatable processes that Claude Code can follow helps you do it faster and easier…so you actually do it every time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;Mistake #5 - Not having (or using) reliable, deterministic feedback loops&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Tests have always been a good idea, but if you want Claude Code to deliver the best quality results, tests are absolutely essential.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Without feedback from its environment, your agent is essentially operating in the dark.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Feedback loops are often the force multiplier that takes AI code quality from unreliable to genuinely production-ready.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Good tests give your agent the “eyes” it needs to observe its own work and self-correct.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;You can use your favorite testing framework, consistent type checking, even hooking the agent up to a browser so it can screenshot your front end or click on your behalf.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;And don't forget: Claude Code itself can help you get the kind of test coverage you never made time for. But not all tests are created equal – you need to know which kinds of tests actually help your agent self-correct, and how to avoid wasting time on tests that don't move the needle.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;In the cohort, you'll learn exactly which tests matter most, how to make sure your agent isn't creating wasteful or unhelpful tests, and how to set up the feedback loops that let you run your agent worry-free in a Ralph loop while you work on designing and planning the next batch of tasks for it to handle.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 style="font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-size:1em;margin:0;font-size:1.5em;margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#000000;line-height:1.5"&gt;Notice the pattern?&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Every single one of these failure modes is a process problem, not an intelligence problem.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Claude Code and similar coding agents are all remarkably capable, and only getting better with each model release and harness upgrade along the way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;The missing piece is the professional engineering process around it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Any one of these mistakes can leave you with an impression that AI coding is unreliable, unsafe, and impossible to use on a large, complex, production grade codebase.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;While avoiding any one of these mistakes will help a little, it's when you use them all together as an interconnected system that you get the real results.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;And that's exactly what I’ve designed &lt;a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/27uq3orpvvaoh89pez0a3hg3xrpqnighnn44p/e0hph0u7v77vwqb8/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2NjLWNvaG9ydC0wMDMtZTY=" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1842485290"&gt;Claude Code for Real Engineers&lt;/a&gt; to give you: a reliable, repeatable set of processes that keep code quality high in any codebase, no matter how big or complex.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;Engineers have been solving these hard, human, thinking problems for decades. Learning from their successes will make us better thinkers, better developers, and help us wield AI coding tools in the smartest and most effective way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"&gt;No matter how novel our tools become, Real Engineering is the way forward.&lt;/p&gt;



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