I gave Claude the Switch component spec and pointed it at variables.css. What came back — CVA variants, Radix Primitives, forwardRef, controlled and uncontrolled both wired — was genuinely good. Better than my first draft would have been. I shipped it that afternoon without changing much.
That was sometime in March. By April, I had written three shell scripts whose entire job was to catch Claude reporting things as done when they weren't.
Not lying about the code. The code was still good.
What I Built for Claude
Before any of the problems, there's the setup. I spent more time building infrastructure for the AI workflow than I'd expected — more than I'd wanted to, honestly.
