How I Handle Automated Programming (opens in new tab)

<p><em>This is a write up of my current process, as an independent software engineer, for using Claude Code to write and review all of my code. The specifics of the below will change as models get better. The overall ideas, I suspect, will hold for a little longer.</em></p> <hr> <p>I’m trying to build software quickly.</p> <p>When Sonnet 4.5 was released in September 2025, I found that I didn’t need to write code anymore.</p> <p>When Opus 4.5 was released in November 2025, I found I didn’t ne...