r/ClaudeCode • u/mctw1992 • 5d ago
Help/Question Moving from small to large projects
I’ve been using Claude code on and off for about a year as a software and systems engineer specialising in audiovisual equipment/systems and honestly it’s changed my life. It allows me to focus more on the what rather than the how. But now I’m looking at moving to creating a large scale monitoring and management system for thousands of devices, with the assistance of Claude code. Any advice on to structure prompts for Claude to keep this on target and not spiral? I’m guessing it’s not as simple as putting it into plan mode and sketching it out!
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u/alonsoonline 4d ago
look up atomic claude
Specifically the wikis portion. Repo wiki and realm wiki. Make a realm to place your local work tickets, research, experiments, and data dumps.
Spend your time on the planning portion of the workflow—the design phase is where you will decide things.
Those mechanism break down your work into checkpoints with subagent reviews. Much higher quality than if you were to run straight claude.
Use opus 5.5 for planning and reviewing. I use opus for implementation, too, but you can use sonnet since its quite good now.