Working with AI on Long Software Projects

Working with AI on Long Software Projects A practical guide for developers building real software with Claude (or similar AI coding tools) over months or years rather than single sessions. The advice here is not theoretical. It comes from a year of joint work on a single codebase with thousands of tests, hundreds of design decisions, and a working pattern that has had to evolve as the project grew. Most of the lessons were learned by hitting the failure modes — over-engineering, scope creep, mou