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If Claude disappeared tomorrow, I’d be fine. Slower, maybe. But fine.
I built my own agent harness and threw a pile of real issues …
The 80s solo developer and the modern AAA studio are separated by decades of compounding tooling. AI is just the latest component in a loop the Industrial Revolution ran for 250 years before software started. The paradigm-defining product is the software factory — and it hasn't shipped yet.
AI tools go straight from prompt to code, and the code becomes the source of truth. But code is noisy and incomplete. There's a missing layer between conversation and code — a model of what the system is and why — that would anchor decisions and stop signal from degrading over time.
A Claude subscription is a fixed cost. Whether you use it once a day or a hundred times, you're paying the same. As a solo dev, AI is your team — and an unused quota means your team is sitting idle.
The AI revolution feels like the dot-com boom. I watched that one from the sidelines — too young, too far away. This time I have the skills, the experience, and the position to act. I'm not missing it twice.
AI has flipped who's waiting. The human now sits idle while the machine works. The natural response is to context-switch, but that's a symptom of tools designed for machines, not humans. The real fix is designing for human time.