My first Claude Code pull request had 200 files. No documented standards, no workflow, no clear direction. Two weeks of patching later, I understood why and overhauled everything.
How Do You End Up With a 200-File PR?
I had just joined a new team working on a greenfield project. Processes were still forming. Standards existed mainly in people's heads. Mine included.
I needed to implement a feature that already existed in another product. My plan: give Claude a link to the source repo and ask it to replicate the feature, adapted to our new project's conventions.
It finished in minutes. I felt pleased with myself.
