$ whoami → I build engineering systems, dabble in AI, and write occasionally
After years of relying on IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm, I switched to Neovim + LazyVim. The trigger wasn't ideology—it was Claude Code and git worktrees changing what I actually need from an editor.
I went from frustrated prompt-fixing to shipping 3-5 features daily. The difference wasn't the tool—it was changing my mental model from writing code to directing work.
How we transformed a legacy Create React App monorepo into a modern Vite-based application, achieving 10x build performance gains and instant HMR through a systematic 5-phase migration approach.