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Planning Before You Build with Claude Code

The biggest mistake people make with Claude Code isn't giving bad instructions. It's skipping the planning step entirely. Fifteen minutes of planning saves an hour of correcting.

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The biggest mistake people make with Claude Code isn't giving bad instructions. It's skipping the planning step entirely.

"Build me a personal website." Five words. Claude will produce something in about thirty seconds. And you'll spend the next hour saying "no, not like that" and "change this" and "actually, start over."

Fifteen minutes of planning saves an hour of correcting.

Step 1: Set Up the Project

Let's create a project folder and initialize it with Claude Code's memory.

Open your terminal and run:

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