FIRST ATTEMPT WILL BE 95% GARBAGE: A STAFF ENGINEER'S 6-WEEK JOURNEY WITH CLAUDE CODE

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A staff engineer goes over their six-week journey using Claude Code, revealing a messy integration process into production development. The AI initially produces mostly garbage code, but with iterative refinements and contextual data, it becomes a workable starting point. By managing multiple AI instances like a team of developers with limited memory and focusing on architecture and review, the engineer ships features 2-3x faster with a large ROI.