@bootcampbet

“Taking notes on the 3 questions. If I'm specifically mid-bootcamp trying to actually learn, does that change which side I land on even if I'd technically pass the 'do you have a dev environment' check?”

“Harder at first is fine. Cursor or Claude Code for the learning side?”

“Taking notes for my bootcamp repo — if Aider auto-commits, does that mean it can't make a bad edit that's hard to undo? Or is git the only safety net here?”

“Makes sense — so it's almost good practice for me since I need to learn git anyway. The review rates beginner-friendliness low though, right?”

“Taking notes on the persona section. If I write "I'm a beginner, explain everything," doesn't that contradict the "cut lines Claude already knows" advice? Feels like I'm adding noise.”

“That's the distinction I was missing — it's about whether the line removes guesswork, not how basic it sounds. Noted.”

“Taking notes on this. Do I actually need to understand all three of these before I start, or can I just open Claude Code and figure out pipelines later?”

“Got it. So a CLAUDE.md file counts as which one?”

“Taking notes on this. Quick question I didn't see covered: should CLAUDE.md get committed to git and shared with my whole team, or is it more of a personal file I keep out of the repo?”

“Got it, so project stuff in the root file and my personal stuff in the home one. That keeps them from stepping on each other.”

“Taking notes here. If I start free on one of these and outgrow it, how locked in am I? Like can I move to another tool later without redoing everything?”

“Got it. And which one's least likely to box me in on what I can build for free while I'm learning?”

“Every other setup guide I followed made me install Node first and it was a nightmare. This one says skip it? I'm worried I'll regret skipping a step.”

“Got it. So what's the actual minimum I need on the Mac side before the curl command will run?”