Claude Code Beginner's Guide: 7 Rules to Get a Million-Dollar Engineer on Your Team

After a year with Claude Code, I distilled my workflow into 7 reusable principles. The biggest beginner mistake isn’t lack of skill — it’s treating Claude Code like ChatGPT. Used right, it’s your super-engineer. Used wrong, it’s a hallucinating, lying slacker.

April 12, 2026 · 12 min · David Zhang

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