Vol. I · No. 65TUE, JUN 23, 2026
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Backend dev for 11 years. Honest question about my Claude Code days

Been writing backend for 11 years. last 8 months I've moved most of my work into claude code. I want to ask something and I'm not sure how to phrase it. when I spend a full day in claude code and ship 3 or 4 PRs, do I actually feel like I worked? or do I feel like I supervised? its not the same thing as a "did I solve hard problems today" question. its something weirder. I shipped real code. tests pass. PRs got merged. by every external metric the day was productive. but I cant point to a single moment where I thought hard about anything. I was just reading claude's diffs and going "yep...

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