Why Your Claude-Assisted Code Becomes a Mess (It's Not Your Prompts)

Three weeks into building with Claude, things feel great. The code ships fast. Features appear almost magically. Then one morning you open the project and something is broken in a way that takes hours to unravel — and when you trace it back, the root cause is something Claude generated two weeks ago that looked totally fine at the time. If that's happened to you, you're not bad at prompting. The real problem is structural, not syntactic Most advice about working with AI coding tools focuses on p