Production & Best Practices
Security, hallucination prevention, cost management, and honest comparisons — everything you need to use Claude Code responsibly and effectively.
Claude Code runs real commands on your machine. Understanding its permission model is the single most important thing before you let it loose on production codebases. This guide covers the three permission modes, safe vs dangerous commands, hooks as safety nets, and best practices for teams.
Claude Code can generate code that looks correct but references APIs that do not exist, file paths that are wrong, or functions with the wrong signature. These hallucinations are the biggest practical risk of AI-assisted coding. This guide teaches you how to spot them, why they happen, and the specific strategies that prevent them.
Claude Code charges per token — every message, file read, and command output counts. Without awareness of what drives costs, a single afternoon can generate a surprisingly large bill. This guide explains exactly how pricing works, what makes costs spike, and the concrete strategies to keep your usage efficient.
After two weeks of using both Claude Code and Cursor on the same production codebase, here is an honest comparison. They are fundamentally different tools built on different philosophies. One is a terminal-first agent, the other is an IDE-first assistant. Understanding when to use each — or both — will make you a more effective developer.