I built most of this site using Claude Code. Not as a novelty — as a deliberate workflow. The components you're reading, the type errors that blocked deployment, the engineering notes you're reading: almost all of it happened through a tight loop of prompting, reviewing, and committing. My job was taste and judgment, not keystrokes.

The thing I didn't expect was the qualitative shift, not just the speed. When implementation cost drops low enough, you stop filtering ideas at the "is this worth building?" stage. You just build. The compounding isn't in the individual tasks — it's in the number of experiments you run. An engineer who ships 10 experiments a week learns differently than one who ships 2. AI doesn't change what you can build; it changes how many times you can try.