Been using Claude Code for a week now as a daily coding assistant. A few observations so far.

It is most useful for tasks where the shape of the solution is clear but the execution is tedious — refactoring, writing tests, tracking down why a CSS rule isn't applying. For genuinely novel design problems, talking through the approach matters more than generating code.

The most important habit: read every diff before accepting it. Not because the code is wrong (it usually isn't), but because understanding what changed keeps you in the loop on your own codebase.