It's 7:30pm on a Tuesday night. I've finished a long day of work and meetings, dinner is cooked and consumed, and I sit down to relax for the evening. I crack open my laptop and am instantly met by four different terminal windows open with Claude Code open working on a number of projects at the same time.
I am by no means technical, nor am I a "power user". I am an addict. Plain and simple. I have long been an "idea" guy and the advent of AI coding agents has completely removed the barrier for me to go from idea to halfway working MVP in just a few prompts and hours. It's remarkable, it's exhilarating, and it completely consumes my evenings.
It's been a long time, probably since the early Facebook days, that I can remember a tool/app having this much of a stranglehold on me. The feeling of typing a few sentences and seeing your idea come to life is intoxicating. It's gotten to the point that I will sink so many hours into using Claude Code that I have to make a conscious effort when I open my laptop to not interact with the tool or I'll look back up at the clock and see that an hour and a half has gone by in a few clicks.
I love college basketball. It is the best sport on Earth and so much fun to watch and analyze. I've always loved looking at trends and stats, despite not being a true statistics wiz. But I know the game. I built a small bubble of people posting on Twitter (X 🤮) my Alma Mater's schedule and record with some key metrics and their upcoming games and light analysis of where they stand and what needs to happen. At first I just wanted a better way to look at the NCAA's NET rankings. That was the whole idea. But once I started prompting Claude, I realized I could go much, much further. I've been able to share a stream of consciousness of where I think analytics tools get it wrong and what I think really matters and have it build my own website and ranking metric.
roadtomarch.com took me about a week of sitting down for 2-3 hours a night to get to the point it is at right now. I've learned a ton and it has been so fun to get to this point. Absolutely none of this is possible without a tool like Claude Code.
Since then I've built a number of other projects and have many more in development. I've upgraded to the Max plan and am using it all the time. The power of these tools is great, and I know I'm probably not even using 90% of the true power of what it can do.
I now carry a notebook with me wherever I go. Walks, flights, the train. When an idea hits I want to capture it, because I know I'm only a prompt away from seeing it come to life.