🤖 I use Claude Code (now with Claude Sonnet 4.5) to write code and solve complicated problems faster. And it works quite well, but it’s far from perfect. You have to know what you’re doing and think about what the problem looks like at a high level but also at a low and detailed level. Otherwise it’s very easy to go around in circles – which is very common with complex problems.
💡 But I have a tip I’ve used many times in recent weeks in this situation: isolate the simplest problem you’re trying to solve, take it out of the larger context and present it to Claude Sonnet outside of Claude Code. If there’s a solution to the problem, you have a greater chance of finding it that way. Sometimes the context in the code can become too extensive and the AI agent gets confused and starts going around in circles.
Try it when you feel you’re not getting a good solution from your coding agent! It has worked for me many times now.
Originally posted on LinkedIn.