i was a skeptic and then, on a whim, i told claudecode to "create an app with a react front end and python api backend that delegates auth0.com and allows users to manage a todo list" or something like that. Like a standard issue web app with a database, backend, frontend, openid and all that. i was pretty impressed with the result.

Then i asked it to create a multi-user stock market portfolio simulator with a comprehensive api, leaderboard, scheduled tasks and the other bells and whistles. Again, fairly impressed with the result. Then I prompted it to build an trading bot that uses the API to compete with the human players, again fairly impressed with the result.

Last, i prompted my way through a react native mobile app integrated with supabase for my sister's startup. It created the schema, some triggers, webhook for stripe, all the app views, setup an expo account, push notifications, prompted _me_ through an Apple developer account and everything else.

All of this was done an hour here and an hour there while making dinner or watching TV, barely any attention paid to the details. Just prompting claudecode and checking what it did.

After those three experiences I started incorporating claudecode into all my coding workflows and managed to get my job to buy me a license for work stuff too.