Maybe someone has better insights but what I have seen is that Claude Code is not amazing on greenfield. I mean it will generate something, which will probably work, but the solution can often be over-engineered, or hacky.
I think we have to build up enough code for it to start appearing like brownfield, before Claude knows how to engineer correctly. Which kind of makes sense if we view Claude Code as a junior engineer with infinite stamina.
I also actually like to spin up Claude Code and Gemini in parallel to see what each one comes up with. Gemini will often do the simpler approach, but not often fully featured, and my solution often ends up taking the 2 solutions and refining in Cursor to come up with the final solution.
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Maybe someone has better insights but what I have seen is that Claude Code is not amazing on greenfield. I mean it will generate something, which will probably work, but the solution can often be over-engineered, or hacky.
I think we have to build up enough code for it to start appearing like brownfield, before Claude knows how to engineer correctly. Which kind of makes sense if we view Claude Code as a junior engineer with infinite stamina.
I also actually like to spin up Claude Code and Gemini in parallel to see what each one comes up with. Gemini will often do the simpler approach, but not often fully featured, and my solution often ends up taking the 2 solutions and refining in Cursor to come up with the final solution.