Small, real, daily use beats occasional deep sessions — the same reason spaced repetition beats cramming. Here's a concrete routine, not vague advice to "just use it more."
Not a toy example — something real but genuinely small: a formatting fix, a short function, a small content update. The goal is the review habit, not the size of the output. See the 5 prompts for fixing bugs if you don't have a natural task on hand yet.
By week two, shift focus from "did it work" to "do I understand why it worked." See reading your first diff for what to actually look for.
Once you have a few days of real sessions behind you, you'll have real conventions worth writing down. Start one — see CLAUDE.md best practices for what actually belongs in it.
A small multi-file task — still real, still contained, just one step up from week one. This is where the daily habit starts compounding into genuine comfort.
7 pages, a Day-1 checklist, and 5 ready-to-copy prompts — everything you need for day one of this routine.
Get the Free Guide →15-20 real minutes on something you'd do anyway beats an hour of contrived practice — consistency matters more than session length.
Real, even small, beats toy — a genuinely small real task teaches the review habit toy examples don't, since there's nothing real at stake to actually check carefully.
Pick back up the next day — the habit matters more than a perfect streak, and missing one day doesn't undo the comfort already built.