I was never confident enough to go into yolo mode in Claude Code after I had such a bad experience with Cursor…or I failed quite hard with the prompts. 🤷
Last weekend, I wanted to try it out for a task where I didn't want to sit next to Claude, watch it, and prevent it from failing. So I’ve made a new attempt. “We” planned the task together; I tried to be as precise as I could be with the prompt and got a first draft as a result. Then we iterated and refined the plan until I was confident with it.
On the weekend, we had planned some family time. It was the best opportunity to let Claude go wild with the planned task. Later in the evening when I was back with the family, I was a little excited about how it worked out. I took a first look, and Claude had completed the task. The result was working, and the tests were green. So this looked promising. I peeked at some files, and it looked good.
After I did a full review on the next day, I was quite happy with the result. There were some small adjustments where Claude was not following the rules exactly, but this is ok. Like checking a PR from another colleague.
Maybe I should try this more. One idea would be that after a finished workday, I go into yolo mode with Claude and review the results on the next day. But before I can do this with confidence, I need to refine my Claude settings. The settings are there, but I never touched them, really. There is potential here. :)
When writing with cursor, it is like talking with your silly self and thinking the outcome is really good.
Writing with CC is like writing with an elaborate sane person, who really knows more than you. (Most of the time.)
When writing a prompt to either of them, I have this mindset above for each in my head, and this is how my prompts look. Maybe this is the reason why my outcome on cursor is not as good as in cc?
Nevertheless is gain something from both of them, so the current state is ok for me.
There is a post about how I migrated to WEZterm, which I still need to write at some time in the future.
Preliminary skirmish
But let’s assume I already wrote the post. I’m really happy with the terminal. I needed to migrate away from Alacritty+Tmux because of the lack of Windows support from Tmux. Overall it was a good decision to migrate. The only thing that currently bothers me is that there is a “bug” where the font rendering misses some characters but brings them back on config reload. (cmd+r)
Here starts the main post
After starting my journey with Claude Code, I needed a handy shortcut to open CC in a 1/3 split pane. Here is the part of my config, which is doing the Job: