Upgraded to Claude Max at the weekend and built a full army of minions. (Team. I meant team.)
I now have a planner, a builder, a validator, and an auditor — all running a full board in Notion, and this shit is honestly so addicting.
There's a lot of people out there worried about AI, and of course it causes a lot of uncertainty, but I'm actually having so much fun with it.
I've been in the game now for 11 years, contracting and freelancing for the past 6. Worked for over 10 companies across very different markets — developer, team lead, architect, head of engineering, fractional CTO — and I was losing my love for software for a while, at least on the actual coding side.
Somewhere around the 50th authentication system, I stopped caring. I've reinvented the wheel so many times — auth flows, CRUD APIs, CI/CD from scratch, cloud environments, state management — and, to be honest, I've just got bored of it. It's all essentially the same thing under the hood. Yes, I got bored of writing code because it became easy. I could do it in my sleep.
But I was never in love with writing code — I was in love with solving problems. I got a lot more interested in the process side of things, automating things. I hate repeating myself. I hate doing things more than once. If I have to do it twice, I'm going to automate it.
Now, using AI and essentially architecting systems that my agents can run on, it's like building a platform — making sure best practices are in place — but without all the boring legwork. I'm loving watching my little team of minions run around building stuff for me.
Thankfully I've got over a decade of experience behind me. I know what good looks like — I've written the bad version 50 times — and this isn't vibe coding. This is beautiful engineering.
Writing up the full process soon — what it actually looks like, what I got wrong, what surprised me.
Stay tuned.
Feeling the same way, or still on the fence about all this?