I did something similar a couple of months ago, asking it to make me a memory system (Opus 4 and o1-pro for design, mainly sonnet 4 for implementation). Initially it was massively overengineered, with a bunch of unneeded components. This was with Cursor, which changes things a bit—Claude Code tends to be much better at planning things first.
The results were very similar—handholding works, looking away results in big messes, revert rather than fix (unless you know how to fix it), and eventually I got something that does what I want, albeit more complex than I would have made by myself.
I did something similar a couple of months ago, asking it to make me a memory system (Opus 4 and o1-pro for design, mainly sonnet 4 for implementation). Initially it was massively overengineered, with a bunch of unneeded components. This was with Cursor, which changes things a bit—Claude Code tends to be much better at planning things first.
The results were very similar—handholding works, looking away results in big messes, revert rather than fix (unless you know how to fix it), and eventually I got something that does what I want, albeit more complex than I would have made by myself.