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I think we overcomplicate small tasks with claude code

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Been noticing this in my own workflow lately. For bigger changes, planning first still makes sense. But for small stuff i used to spend way too much time making claude inspect the repo, explain the approach and list out every step before it touched anything. Now if the change is easy to reverse, i…

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  1. 2026-08-21 10:11 · r/ClaudeAI
    I think we overcomplicate small tasks with claude code

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