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The first monorepo I worked in had 12 services, 4 shared libraries, 3 frontend apps, and a tooling directory that nobody understood. My first week, I spent four hours hunting for the right place to add a new shared utility. I added it in the wrong pa...
The first time I tried to contribute to a popular open source repo, I spent six hours reading code, two hours setting up the dev environment, and another four hours figuring out the test infrastructure before I could even reproduce the bug I wanted t...
The first time I broke production with a migration, I was running a NOT NULL constraint on a 12-million-row users table during peak traffic. The query locked the table, the API timed out, payments failed, and I spent the next 90 minutes hunched over ...
For a long time my code review process was a bottleneck. PRs sat in queue for hours because I was the only senior dev who could review backend changes. By the time I got to a review, half the context was stale, the author had moved on to other work, ...
The first time I gave Claude Code access to my Shopify store via MCP, I felt like a wizard. The agent could read orders, query products, and pull customer data with a single command. The second time, I realized I had no idea what would happen if a pr...
For the first three months I used Claude Code, my prompts were a mess. I'd type a sentence, get back something close to what I wanted, type a correction, get something else, and burn through tokens correcting things I should have specified upfront. M...