You aren't telling us anything about how you're using it. So how can we tell you what you're doing wrong? You're just reporting what happened.

You haven't even said what programming language you're trying to use, or even what platform.

It sounds to me like you didn't do much planning, you just gave it a prompt to build away.

My preferred method of building things, and I've built a lot of things using Claude, is to have a discussion with it in the chatbot. The back and forth of exploring the idea gives you a more solid idea of what you're looking for. Once we've established the idea I get it to write a spec and a plan.

I have this as an instruction in my profile.

> When we're discussing a coding project, don't produce code unless asked to. We discuss projects here, Claude Code does the actual coding. When we're ready, put all the documents in a zip file for easy transfer (downloading files one at a time and uploading them is not fun on a phone). Include a CONTENTS.md describing the contents and where to start.

So I'll give you this one as an example. It's a Qwen driven System monitor.

https://github.com/lawless-m/Marvinous

here are the documents generated in chat before trying to build anything

https://github.com/lawless-m/Marvinous/tree/master/ai-monito...

At this point I can usually say "The instructions are in the zip, read the contents and make a start." and the first pass mostly works.