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This must be what rich people feel like?

I can get claude to do whatever i want, and it produces good product, I just had to pay anthropic! I've spent $730 since I started this journey. This website, given humans, would have taken at least 3 years, with a staff of at least 5 very good devs, and a DBA. I've seen good devs, and crappy devs. I did my time with .net, and then with ms sql server.

Even with claude, I still consider myself a dev. I have the idea, I type English to the tool, moderately understand the process, and fantastic code magically pushes to production.

When there are issues, I use my existing devbrain to figure it out, and arrive at the solution pretty quickly, but, ya'll, I don't have to write code unless I want to!

I love being able to give Claude Code the go ahead by simply typing Christopher Pike's "Hit It" It's my favorite engage statement. I didn't like Burnham's "lets fly", and Picard's "engage" is a little dated now, and Janeway's "Do it" is a little too much Ben Stiller these days, lol!

I've been looking for that thing for a while... Thought it was the Sockettier I invented a number of years ago. It is extremely challenging to get anything manufactured in the USA. The Sockettier was simply too expensive, so I got no purchases. Made a cheaper one without magnets, still probably too expensive, we shall see.

Claude Code is the coolest thing I've ever used, beyond the computer itself. I luv luv luv Microsoft SQL server. I've been in databases for 26 years, I used to say SSIS is my absolute favorite tool. Not anymore. Sorry, sweet cheeks, you've been dethroned. I built this entire website using Claude Code. The whole thing. I know how to do web design, but I hate it. This website, with all it's AI integrations, would have taken a team of 5 kickass developers and a DBA or two, 2 years at least. It makes mistakes once in a while, but the kicker is that it tests its own code, then fixes it, just like a junior dev would do.

I'm new at this, and have used Claude Code for this whole site. I grew up in SQL Server, and have done some limited web coding, so I knew how to do it, just don't like it. I stayed in my walled garden of databases.

Now I don't have to. I tell claude to go get api hooks into something, done. I tell it to recode my cart system, for the 25th time? Done. A human would have murdered (jk) my body if I told them to redo everything 25 times.