I'm effectively no longer typing code by hand: I decide what change I want to make and then prompt Claude Code to describe that change. Sometimes I'll have it figure out the fix too.

An example from earlier today: https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/commit/fa6d147f5cff9ea9...

That commit added 33 lines and removed 13 - so I'm already at a 20-lines-a-day level just from that one commit (and I shipped a few more plus a release of llm-gemini: https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/commits/a2bdec13e03ca8a...)

It took about 3.5 minutes. I started from this issue someone had filed against my repo:

Then I opened Claude Code and said:

  Run this command: uv run llm -m gemma-3-27b-it hi

That ran the command and returned the error message. I then said:

  Yes, fix that - the gemma models do not support media resolution

Which was enough for it to figure out the fix and run the tests to confirm it hadn't broken anything.

I ran "git diff", thought about the change it had made for a moment, then committed and pushed it.

Here's the full Claude Code transcript: https://gistpreview.github.io/?62d090551ff26676dfbe54d8eebbc...

I verified the fix myself by running:

  uv run llm -m gemma-3-27b-it hi

I pasted the result into an issue comment to prove to myself (and anyone else who cares) that I had manually verified the fix: https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/issues/116#issuecomment...

Here's a more detailed version of the transcript including timestamps, showing my first prompt at 10:01:13am and the final response at 10:04:55am. https://tools.simonwillison.net/claude-code-timeline?url=htt...

I built that claude-code-timeline application this morning too, and that thing is 2284 lines of code: https://github.com/simonw/tools/commits/main/claude-code-tim... - but that was much more of a vibe-coded thing, I hardly reviewed the code that was written at all and shipped it as soon as it appeared to work correctly. Since it's a standalone HTML file there's not too much that can go wrong if it has bugs in it.

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