I am a CLAUDE noob and I like it
Agents, MCPs, skills - how much do you really need?
I use CLAUDE (sounds like a confession…). Tons of private projects (which will inevitably die due to missing any valuable use case) and professionally.
I tried setting up multiple agents, created my own MCP server(s) for different apps, and delved into skills and plugins.
But in the end, I found all of it to be an overkill for the needs I have. Even when my project is rather complex, I really prefer to work WITH CLAUDE, not let CLAUDE work for me. I do trust that it’ll do a decent job, actually, if I just let it loose, but at the same time, I want to know what’s going on. I want to follow in CLAUDE’s footsteps.
The most useful for “extras” for my CLAUDE envrionment are the MS Azure plugins:
Just so that when I need to deal with tons of AZURE APIs, CLAUDE helps me to nail down the right ones.
As for the rest, I stick to a live CLAUDE session within the repo I’m working on, and I mix between manual edits (10-20%) and CLAUDE edits (80-90%).
I love the /plan mode. I mostly work with it. But honestly, I rarely read the plan fully. I skim through it, if it makes sense to me, general logic and approach, I don’t care about exact details. At least I know which decisions CLAUDE took to realize a certain logic.
I prompt - CLAUDE edits - I edit - we progress.
Do I need my projects to go much faster?
Well, they are going much faster already, and I still feel like I maintain a level of control.
Even faster? Leave it all to CLAUDE?
I have an existential dread that a client or a colleague asks me about a piece of the product, and its logic, and I have zero knowledge of how and why, even though I “shipped” it. If CLAUDE vibes coded it in full, I will then have to VIBE TALK myself out of those questions. I don’t want that.
I still feel solely responsible for the solution. Hence, I need to know what, how, and why.
I’m yet to find a project where I would actually consider deploying multiple agents to multitask at the level of a full dev team. Yes, maybe the scale of my operation is small. But at the same time, back to the existential dread, I want to be in control. If not by decision-making, then at least by the knowledge of the whole codebase.
Maybe I’m clinging to the old world a bit too much. Maybe I’ll let it go.
But for now, co-working with CLAUDE is my favorite thing to do. I want to be in the loop.