Comment by amarant

I mean, I didn't really expect it to work, I just wanted to see what would happen. I'd had pretty good results thus far and wondered how far I could push it. Jira-epic-style prompts was, not surprisingly, pushing it too far.

It did manage to get the application working though, with only a couple of "this thing broke, plz fix" style prompts, and it did better than I had thought it would to fulfill my intention, give how vague I was.

My point was that if you're going to build an actual product, you should probably not use Claude in that way. Break down the epics to smaller more manageable chunks however, and Claude can do an amazing job! I'll definitely keep experimenting with it this way, it's way better than full-manual coding, or at least that's my initial impression of about a week of experimentation!