₹40,000 to ₹70,000 — that's the extra monthly capacity my consulting practice has picked up since switching my primary dev loop to Claude Code six months ago. Forty production automations shipped in that window: bank reconciliation pipelines, stock screeners, ITR-prep bots, expense categorizers, GST filing helpers, a couple of trading systems I still babysit.
The Context — Who This Review Is For
I'm not a web app engineer. I build finance and trading automations in Python, glue them to broker APIs and Google Sheets, and ship scripts that run on cron jobs or Railway containers. If you build similar back-end, script-first work, this review will transfer cleanly. If you're writing React all day, your mileage will differ.
The bar I measure against is brutal. A client automation has to work on day one against real production data, handle every edge case a CA firm can dream up, and be debuggable by me at 11 PM when a trade doesn't fire. No tolerance for "it worked on my machine."
What Claude Code Gets Right — The Four Wins That Actually Matter
