I've been using Claude Code on production projects for several months. It's genuinely impressive at writing code. But I kept shipping features that technically worked and architecturally misfired.
The problem wasn't the code quality. It was that I was handing the AI a task and letting it decide — implicitly, mid-implementation — what the system should actually do. Those decisions were buried in commits, invisible to review, and untraceable to any requirement.
I was using Claude Code as a replacement for a developer. It works better as a replacement for a compiler: something that takes a precise specification and produces correct output.
That realization led me to build opsx.
The core principle: Spec → Plan → Code
