Failure modes of Claude Code in a supervised but code-blind 60h project

100% human-written. Copyedited by Claude.*Epistemic status: experience report of one ~60h project with Claude Code, plus longer for the write-up.Scope: I supervised Claude's thinking but didn't look at the code. Spec was an exploratory, high-level design refined iteratively.Method: I introduced runtime and design self-checks as Claude failure modes appeared, and ran manual regression tests against a known result. I noted the behaviors and quotes myself; I linked them to existing research and Ant...