[kleyd]

Does anyone else find themselves starting projects that wouldn't otherwise be worth the time investment, while avoiding Claude Code for the tasks that actually have high priority?

Who has had success using Claude Code on features in older, bigger, messier projects?

[tinodb]

Yes and yes. I find that you can really let it rip (vibe) on something greenfield, but you’ll have to take a more measured approach once something gets off the ground.

I use it daily on our 10yo production repo with success.

[allenu]

Absolutely. I only just started using Claude Code on Sunday and I tested it by taking a small project that I was toying with and extending it with lots of features that I had thought about adding but didn't have the time.

Then, I explored a product feature in an existing app of mine that I also had put off because I didn't feel it was worth spending several days exploring the idea. It's something that would've required me to look up tutorials and APIs on how to do some basic things and then write some golang code which I hadn't done in a while. With Claude Code, I was able to get a prototype of the idea from a client app and a golang service working within an hour!

Today I started prototyping yet another app idea I came up with yesterday. I started off doing the core of the prototype in a couple of hours by hand and then figured I'd pull Claude in to add features on top of it. I ended up spending several hours building this idea since I was making so much fantastic progress. It was genuinely addictive.

A few days ago I used it to help me explore how I should refactor a messy architecture I ended up with. I didn't initially consider it would even be useful at all but I was wowed by how it was able to understand the design I came up with and it gave me several starting points for a refactor. I ended up doing the refactor myself just because I really wanted to be sure I understood how it worked in case something went wrong. I suspect in a few weeks, I'll get used to just pairing with Claude on something like that.

[kleyd]

That matches exactly my experience. Now there are a couple of prototypes to be finished, which still takes time. And higher priority tasks get delayed instead of sped up.