using them. there really is no other way.

It's like asking "how do I use my text editor".

Almost everything you read online will be out of date, and the person working on it won't work the same way you do.

Some people love it, some people hate it.

And unless you've got your own experience, it's hard applying other people's experience to your experience.

Especially for something like Claude Code where you're just prompting and getting results back.

I mean, half the time I use VS Code, half the time I use a terminal window.

You're going to get a lot of conflicting advice because everyone's environment is different and they work on different sorts of code bases.

But I'll give you mine.

I'm a Claude Max Pro 200 subscriber.

I sit with the Opus chat-bot have a discussion and come up with a spec. We turn this into a zip full of documents and upload it to a GitHub Repo.

e.g. https://github.com/lawless-m/BattleForMoscow

I'll then get Claude Code for the Web to go to that repo unzip the zip and read the documents. It will make a first pass at the entire codebase.

I'll merge that into main and create another Claude Code for the Web Opus session with any ideas I've had in the meantime - which will usually be a few.

Then I clone it to a local machine and get Claude Code Opus to try and get it to work. And I'll prompt it from there until it works. If it's a Linux program, that'll be in a terminal window. If it's Windows, I'll use VS Code because it's a better terminal in VS Code than it is in a terminal window on Windows.

That's a general workflow. Sometimes I won't use GitHub at all. Sometimes a PXE boot an entire Linux machine and give it that with admin privs.

And sometimes I just tell it to use sudo as my own account. On my router for instance, if we want to do things with the firewall.