The 2-week Claude Code cliff — and how to get past it

There is a pattern I see with every developer who picks up Claude Code seriously. Week one: euphoric. You ship faster than you ever have. Week two: still fast. You are learning the prompting patterns. Output quality is high. End of week two, start of week three: something changes. Requests that worked before start failing. You get hallucinated imports, contradicting suggestions, outputs that ignore half your codebase. You think you are doing something wrong. You are not doing something wrong. You hit the cliff. What the cliff actually is Claude Code is stateless between sessions.