I Haven't Written a Line of Code in Six Months

I've been programming since the late 1980s. Enterprise tech, healthcare systems, process mining platforms. Three companies built and sold. Over 30 years of writing code, every single day.

I haven't written a line of code in six months. I don't miss it.

My job now is managing six to ten occasionally drunk PhD students. That's what running Claude Code agents feels like. They're brilliant. They're fast. They occasionally wander off and do something completely unhinged. But when you get them pointed in the right direction, they produce three months of work in a week.

The other day we spent four and a half hours trying to fix something. Going in circles. Finally I said: start over from scratch. It picked a different approach and everything worked. That happens every week. I do three months of work in a week, then lose half a day. The ratio is still overwhelmingly positive.

I build open-source tools around Claude Code -- a director app that manages multiple sessions, almost 30 tools for things Claude can't do natively (PDF, Excel, email, browser automation), pre-built skills that work like SOPs. All free.

We recently translated 350 website pages into seven languages for just under $18. Three years ago that would have cost $2,000 to $5,000 per language and taken two weeks. We did it overnight.

My skill went from being a creator and writer of code to being a manager of brilliant, unpredictable agents. I played basketball at a high level my whole life. Knee injury ended it. Started freediving instead. Now I don't miss basketball at all. Things change. You become something different.

Curious if anyone else has hit the same point where you stopped writing code and started managing agents full-time.