All posts tagged Claude Code - thoughts on AI-first development, staff engineering, and building with Claude Code.
Six months ago I would have told you AI could review all of our code and catch more than humans ever did. Then I watched what actually happens when the author didn't read the PR, the reviewers didn't read the PR, and everyone assumed someone had. Here's where I landed instead.
At my dad's retirement party, in the gap before England vs Norway kicked off on the garden projector, I built him a digital time capsule. Guests scanned a QR code on the big screen and left sealed notes and predictions that nobody - including me - can read until 27 March 2027. The best part was watching the counter tick up all afternoon.
At the end of my Split writeup I said the next iteration of this lifestyle wasn't a nicer office on the road - it was no office. cc-remote is the first real step: a Claude-branded Android chat client driving persistent Claude Code sessions in tmux on a Raspberry Pi 5, over Tailscale. Full-fat Claude Code, on my phone, no laptop required.
I asked Claude a question this evening - 'any cars on the drive?' - and thirty seconds later it described the cars, where they were parked, and that they hadn't moved in the last ten minutes. The thing that answered wasn't a smart-home plugin or a cloud service. It was an MCP server I'd written hours earlier, bridging my home CCTV to Claude Code. Here's what I learned building it in one evening.
I spent eleven days building an ambient AI agent on a Raspberry Pi. It fused my calendar, watch, location, and phone state into one decision loop, then nudged me throughout the day. I drank more water. I moved more. I was more present. Then I killed it. Here's what worked, what failed, and what every habit app has been missing.
A month of remote work from Rome - where world-class history is a 20-minute walk from your desk, but the local cafes want you in and out. Here's how the AI-first workflow held up against API rate limits and Italian work culture.