I paid for Claude pro because i've been hearing that people have used it to do insane things with coding, basically writing entire projects just with claude. I'm trying to use it to design a simple game in python. It's not super complicated, it's something I could write myself but it would take me quite a while as I'm not fast at coding. maybe my expectations were too high but based on what other people were saying I thought I could get claude to basically write the whole program for me with the right prompting.

But I don't really understand how people have used claude do build projects successfully at all. Its capability and understnad of code is quite impressive for an AI, it's certianly much smarter than chat gpt4o. But it seems to hit a wall super quickly if I send it my code and try to have it add new features. And whenever it gets stuck, if I explain to it the problem, its answer is always to add a bunch of extra redundant functions that "check" (unsuccesfully) for the issue if it arises, instead of actually trying to fix the bug.

additionally its code management seems atrocious so because I started the project using claude i'm nearly unable to start editing the code myself. the compartmentalization is terrible and there's tons of weird redundancies, unnused functions, unnecessary functions, and code in strange places.

i'm just wondering when people have made these projects using only Claude, how are you actually getting it to write code that you can put together into a large program? is there some organizational trick I'm missing?