Using Claude to Move Faster Without Cutting Corners

There's a version of AI-assisted development that looks like this: you describe a feature, the AI writes the code, you paste it in, it mostly works, you move on. That's one way to use it. It's not the most valuable way. I use Claude daily - for architecture decisions, code review, writing, debugging, and building features. The productivity gains are real, but they don't come from offloading thinking.