A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

For me, working mostly in Planning Mode skips much of the initial misfires, and often leads to correct outcomes for the first edit.

Recently I’ve been taking a step back and getting ChatGPT 5 to ask me questions to create a spec.

I refine that spec and then give that to planning mode and then go from there.

I’ve found if I jump straight into planning mode I miss some critical aspects of what ever it is I am building.