It can be, but if you're familiar with what you're working with and have experience with other systems that have transferrable knowledge, again, it can be an advantage.
I was surprised with claude code I was able to get a few complex things done that I had anticipated to be a few weeks to uncover, stitch together and get moving.
Instead I pushed Claude to consistently present the correct udnerstanding of the problem, strucutre, approach to solving things, and only after that was OK, was it allowed to propose changes.
True to it's shiny things corpus, it will over complicate things because it hasn't learned that less is more. Maybe that reflects the corpus of the average code.
Looking at how folks are setting up their claude.md and agents can go a long way if you haven't had a chance yet.
I was surprised with claude code I was able to get a few complex things done that I had anticipated to be a few weeks to uncover, stitch together and get moving.
Instead I pushed Claude to consistently present the correct udnerstanding of the problem, strucutre, approach to solving things, and only after that was OK, was it allowed to propose changes.
True to it's shiny things corpus, it will over complicate things because it hasn't learned that less is more. Maybe that reflects the corpus of the average code.
Looking at how folks are setting up their claude.md and agents can go a long way if you haven't had a chance yet.