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6 weeks of Claude Code

It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability to instantly create a whole scene instead of going line by line, word by word is incredibly powerful.

I have been on many projects with people which have taken weeks full-time to perform some sort of mundane task: “converting this JS codebase to TypeScript”, “Update to Swift X”, “Switch to a monorepo” they’re the kind of things which are delicate migrations which require a gazillion rebases. IMO treating it as a competitor which you can learn from is a much healthier alternative to either giving up and just accepting you don’t need to know stuff anymore, or putting your head in the sand and assuming somehow this change won’t affect you. I’ve found it to sit somewhere at the stage of “Post-Junior”, there’s a lot of experience there and a whole boat-load of energy but it doesn’t really do a good job remembering things you ask (even via CLAUDE.md and the scope of it’s ownership is obviously trivial).

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