In the past, I’ve used Claude Code with mixed results. The tool has improved a great deal in the meantime. I still prefer developing the most essential functionalities by hand instead of using Claude Code. However, I found a fun way to use Claude Code in a way it wasn’t intended! One of my hobbies is playing TTRPGs (tabletop role-playing games) and CRPGs (computer/console role-playing games), which both tend to have limitations that the LLM-powered Claude Code does not.

Each new iteration of LLMs gets its coding capabilities ‘upgraded’, ’enhanced’ and more with great results from some software engineering scoring system. Everytime I see this I get excited and curious, but it always ends in disappointment for me. I find it a bit difficult to describe why exactly, but I’ll try to get some of my thoughts written up here.

Last week Anthropic released a tool called Claude Code (CC), which at first glance seemed pretty powerful. So I tried it for a bit, and it’s clearly not there yet when working on larger projects. At least for me.