There are two kinds of articles about coding with AI. The ones that generate a sorting function and conclude the profession is over, and the ones that show a dumb bug and conclude none of this works.
Neither one looks anything like my actual workday.
This is the third kind: the concrete workflow I use with Claude Code on this very site, three tasks I actually delegated, the trail in the repository to back it up, and a section on where it fails that runs as long as the section on where it works. That's the part I would have wanted to read.
What it is, without the marketing
Claude Code is an agent that runs in your terminal, inside your repository. It reads your files, runs your commands, edits your code, makes your commits. It isn't editor autocomplete, and it isn't a separate chat window where you paste fragments back and forth.
