Two Essential Self-Check Questions to Ask Claude Before Ending Coding Sessions
Sweet_Concentrate128 · reddit · 2026-07-31
The author shares a practical habit for catching errors before accepting code from Claude during programming sessions: asking the model two specific questions.
- "What are you least confident about in what you just did?" This prompts the model to surface assumptions it quietly made, catching issues about a quarter of the time that would otherwise hit production.
- "What's the biggest thing I'm probably missing that I haven't thought to ask?" This uncovers context conflicts, like "you told me to do X, but Y is going to bite you later."
While not entirely foolproof—sometimes the model just repeats itself confidently—the hit rate is high enough that skipping this step now feels careless.
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