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Claude Code users share hard-won rules for effective AI coding

Users of Anthropic's Claude Code have shared specific, hard-won rules for effectively using the AI coding assistant. A key lesson involves how Claude generates tests, with one user discovering that letting Claude write both code and tests in the same session can lead to flawed assumptions. To avoid this, it's recommended to either define test specifications beforehand or initiate a new chat for test generation, focusing only on function signatures and docstrings. AI

IMPACT Users are sharing best practices for leveraging AI coding assistants more effectively.

RANK_REASON User-generated tips and discussion about using an existing product.

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/FarExperience1359 ·

    What’s one Claude Code rule you only learned after it broke something?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>i’ve been using Claude Code daily across a few small projects, MCPs and internal scripts, and the most useful rules i follow now mostly came from painful mistakes.</p> <p>the big one for me was tests. i let Claude write the code and the tests in …