Honestly, stop relying on pure chat for boilerplate. If you want to stop the hallucinations, you need to use Claude Code to manipulate the file system directly. Use the edit command for scoped changes rather than asking it to generate an entire dashboard file from scratch. It works way better if you feed it specific component specs first. I find that running the read command on your existing tailwind config or your primary package.json before you ask for new code stops it from guessing your dependencies. It keeps the context locked to your actual project setup instead of some generic hallucinated mess. For local dev performance, just make sure your machine has enough overhead, I run my stack on a Apple MacBook Pro M3 Pro 18GB RAM and it handles the CLI context updates smoothly without choking. Another trick is creating a custom instructions file in your root directory that defines your styling constraints. When Claude reads that file first, it stops reinventing your UI components every time you prompt it. Just dont ask for massive feature additions in one go. Break it down to one component per prompt, run your linting, and move on. It saves so much time not having to fix imports or random state management errors manually.

> Im trying to finish this react dashboard for my side gig by Friday Saw this earlier but just now responding. Are you paying for an enterprise tier or just burning through your personal credits? Honestly, I save a ton by using Cursor AI Pro since the autocomplete keeps me from hitting rate limits. Do you have a specific budget cap for these API calls? Maybe we can optimize your workflow to stop wasting tokens on bad boilerplate.

Adding my two cents, honestly I think people rely way too much on the AI writing the logic. I keep my context window tiny by using small, isolated module tests. Instead of letting the AI guess the whole dashboard, I just force it to focus on one component at a time. It stops the hallucinations pretty well tbh. Not sure if it works for everyone, but it saves me a ton of headaches.