Claude Code has Invaded my Life

After a full year of using AI coding assistants inside traditional IDEs like Visual Studio Code, Windsurf, and Cursor the last few months have marked a turning of finally hanging out with the cool kids and using Claude Code. Looking at my github activity, trying to make this switch effective has taken over my life. I’m ususally the kiss of death of trends, so start the countdown for Claude Code no longer being the “IT” tool.

The last two weeks have been spicy!

I’ve spent my entire career as an IDE jockey. Whatever we used on Solaris and Linux in college (I can’t remember), Sublime, VS Code, Cursor – I have been a mouse and keyboard man, preferring to use visual tools for navigating my code base.

I Need Workspaces for My Terminals

The shift has caused me to need new tools and workflows. I had so many Claude Code sessions running simultaneously that a normal terminal couldn’t keep up. I’m going to have to get quicker at using git worktrees. I’m going to try to switch from ghostty to cmux just to stay sane.

making this blog post

The future is automating without losing my soul

Just about everything I need to do multiple times needs to get turned into whathever the flavor of the week extension is to this new environment. I suspect this is going to be the year of personal software, where we are all armed with the superpower of coding productivity but we havn’t yet discovered how to work together as a team, community, or ecosystem. But for personal stuff … that can all get agentified.

The trick is using this automation so I can spend more time doing art, making things that matter by hand, relating to people, touching grass … whatever. Something more balanced than this last few weeks.

The Future is Agents, Not Apps

Looking ahead, I feel my computing environment gradually shifting. The old model – apps, dashboards, GUIs – is giving way to something different. I see a future built on agents, static sites, and mutating second-brain knowledge bases made of markdown files. Less clicking through interfaces, more conversing with tools that read and write the same plain-text artifacts I do.