435: How to Actually Use Claude Code to Build Serious Software

After six months of building Podscan almost exclusively with Claude Code, Arvid shares the configuration and prompting strategies that make agentic coding actually work. From connecting Claude to your browser with the --chrome flag so it can visually inspect your app, to the "Ralph Wiggum loop" that keeps the agent iterating until a task is truly done, to the permission settings that prevent it from nuking your database—these are the practical lessons that separate productive Claude Code users from those constantly cleaning up messes. Plus: why testing is Claude Code's superpower, and how to build a system prompt that turns raw code generation into genuine collaboration.

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