Author(s): Venkat Peri
Originally published on Towards AI.
Across 26 calendar days, I logged 97 active hours and processed 9.9 billion tokens of Claude Code on a single project. The output is an app currently in production pilot, used daily by colleagues in real workflows. I built this in evenings and weekends, working around my day job.
The 97-hour number deserves clarification. Most of it was Claude working autonomously while I watched the chat, dispatched the next thing, or stepped away to watch a video or work on something else with the window visible. My active attention was probably a quarter to a third of that. Claude did the typing. I did the architecture, the dispatching, and the review.
The numbers below come from JSONL session logs and the project’s git history, not estimates.
