Contributing with Claude

[bartbutenaers]

Hi @FezVrasta

Thanks for the development guide. Everything setup now...

However start coding manually is rather useles here. I would have to spend a lot of my (very limited...) free time, which you can do much better in a very short time with Claude AI. As a newbie with these technologies (React, ReactFlow, HA automations, ...), Claude knows a lot more as me. Combined with some manual code reviews and refactoring, you will get much more decent code in this case.

However I have no clue how to contribute with Claude here:

1. The claude.ai web app produces nice code, but it looks to me that it has very limited context. It tells me continiously that it cannot read the files in your repo, so it doesn't know how you have structured your codebase.
2. Using Claude via a VS Code extension should solve that (?) but it looks to me that it requires a rather expensive account to be bought. Which I cannot get explained to my wife, since I won't use it often (due to severe lack of me-time...).

Do you (or others reading this) have any idea how I can get started with this in another way?

Thanks!!
Bart

[FezVrasta]

I use Claude Code (the CLI), with the Pro subscription, which is approx $17/month. I also use GitHub Copilot but the output quality is much much lower so I tend to avoid it unless I have ran out of tokens on Claude.

[bartbutenaers]

Ok thanks for the input!!