Things nobody tells you about Claude Code when you start

The marketing shows the good parts. Here's what you figure out through experience. The first week you'll be slower Every new tool has an adjustment cost. With Claude Code it's learning which tasks to delegate, how to write prompts, and how much to trust the output. Your throughput will drop before it rises. Most people either push through or give up here. Claude will confidently do the wrong thing Claude doesn't say "I'm not sure" often enough. It picks an approach and executes with high confidence. Sometimes the approach is wrong and the execution is impressive. The only protection is reading diffs carefully before committing. Your CLAUDE.md will be wrong the first time Every CLAUDE.md starts as a guess. You discover what needs to be in it by running sessions and noticing what Claude gets wrong. The file improves over weeks, not days. The first version is just a starting point. Session restarts lose context If your session dies mid-task, Claude doesn't remember what it was doing. With