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YesClaude Code, Cursor · 27 Jan 2026

Last week, I didn't open an IDE _once_ and I committed several thousands lines of code across 2 or 3 different internal projects

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upwards of 70 or 80%

In the thread “ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files”, replying to this comment

Helped: Building documentation, skills, and tools; senior-level planning and refinement.

Got in the way: Initial phase felt like spending more time for worse work.

… When you first start using claude code, it feels like you are spending more time to get worse work out of it, but once you sort of build up the documentation/skills/tools it needs to be successful, it starts to pay dividends. Last week, I didn't open an IDE _once_ and I committed several thousands lines of code across 2 or 3 different internal projects. A lot of that was a major refactor (smaller files, smaller function sizes, making things more DRY) that I had been putting off for months. …