Tag: productivity

I didn't quit JetBrains on principle. Claude Code plus git worktrees changed what I actually needed from an editor, and IntelliJ stopped fitting.

Why I stopped treating Claude like a faster typewriter and started treating it like an engineer on my team.

Framework expertise is the lowest-leverage skill. The concepts transfer; the syntax doesn't matter. Here's how I actually pick up new stacks.

Plan mode is the read-only switch in Claude Code that stops the agent from touching your files until you've reviewed its plan. After a few months I'm not going back to letting it just go.