My weekend with Claude
2026-03-01:
This weekend, after Anthropic told Lord Farquad to kick rocks, I decided to try out Claude Code Pro. Wow. I've been using a lot of Amazon Q integrated with VS Code, which was twice as productive as CoPilot. Claude Code is 3x more productive than Amazon Q. It's interesting how much further ahead Anthropic's native tools are when, under the hood, Amazon and Microsoft are both using Claude's models. Using Claude's code was like having a recently certified junior engineer at your disposal. It could use the CLI to query logs and process the results; it uses the CLI directly to implement fixes and diagnose errors. With Claude's help, I took an existing application and over the weekend rewrote it into a new, cheaper-to-maintain app.
