[TLDR] Am I missing something?

Original post URL : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1uqkc2y/am_i_missing_something/

Original post body :

Claude Code is the worst experience I've ever had using AI models to write code.

I'm a software developer that's used Cursor, Antigravity, spun up a few local models and had varying levels of success, and then earlier this week I spun up Claude Code for the first time after seemingly hearing nothing but positive reviews,

It's so bad? It's horrifically slow, burns through tokens at an insane rate, I literally just hit my 5 hour limit from 0 to 100% in a single code review on a branch with ~20 file changes?

What am I missing? The first prompt I gave it was a simple unit test failure that I could have fixed myself in ~20 minutes in a fairly simple full-stack Typescript codebase, it burned through ~70% of it's 5 hour limit, thought (and made no file changes) for 20 minutes, then finally made some file changes, didn't bother to re-run the tests and just declared that they were fixed, and introduced new linting and typechecking errors? And then when I run the tests, they were still broken? So not only did it not complete the task provided, it left the codebase in a worse state than when it started after thinking for 20 minutes?

Please, if anyone has any advice then let me know, I feel like I *must* be doing something wrong, but I also feel like there's no way it should perform this badly out of the box. I have a very simple AGENTS.md file at the root of my PC, but outside of that, I haven't configured Claude in any way, any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you all

EDIT: Removed "professional" from the post, you're not allowed to be "professional" and bad at using a new technology simultaneously it seems, my apologies