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I've never understood sportsball in the modern age. Why? Wtf. Arbitrary rules, arbitrary goals, this does not help anyone but the strong. Fuck that.

Doing this site, and my others, over the past six months, I've learned more about website development and infrastructure than I ever wanted to... And I did it passively, watching an AI make the same mistakes countless other developers made, because it was trained on reality. Not sure if the AI has gotten better, or I've gotten better at using it, probably both, but it's still creepy fast.

This must be what rich people feel like?

I can get claude to do whatever i want, and it produces good product, I just had to pay anthropic! I've spent $730 since I started this journey. This website, given humans, would have taken at least 3 years, with a staff of at least 5 very good devs, and a DBA. I've seen good devs, and crappy devs. I did my time with .net, and then with ms sql server.

Even with claude, I still consider myself a dev. I have the idea, I type English to the tool, moderately understand the process, and fantastic code magically pushes to production.

When there are issues, I use my existing devbrain to figure it out, and arrive at the solution pretty quickly, but, ya'll, I don't have to write code unless I want to!

I love being able to give Claude Code the go ahead by simply typing Christopher Pike's "Hit It" It's my favorite engage statement. I didn't like Burnham's "lets fly", and Picard's "engage" is a little dated now, and Janeway's "Do it" is a little too much Ben Stiller these days, lol!

I've been looking for that thing for a while... Thought it was the Sockettier I invented a number of years ago. It is extremely challenging to get anything manufactured in the USA. The Sockettier was simply too expensive, so I got no purchases. Made a cheaper one without magnets, still probably too expensive, we shall see.

Claude Code is the coolest thing I've ever used, beyond the computer itself. I luv luv luv Microsoft SQL server. I've been in databases for 26 years, I used to say SSIS is my absolute favorite tool. Not anymore. Sorry, sweet cheeks, you've been dethroned. I built this entire website using Claude Code. The whole thing. I know how to do web design, but I hate it. This website, with all it's AI integrations, would have taken a team of 5 kickass developers and a DBA or two, 2 years at least. It makes mistakes once in a while, but the kicker is that it tests its own code, then fixes it, just like a junior dev would do.

I'm new at this, and have used Claude Code for this whole site. I grew up in SQL Server, and have done some limited web coding, so I knew how to do it, just don't like it. I stayed in my walled garden of databases.

Now I don't have to. I tell claude to go get api hooks into something, done. I tell it to recode my cart system, for the 25th time? Done. A human would have murdered (jk) my body if I told them to redo everything 25 times.