A guy called David emailed me last week about Tour of the Bible. He’d been working through the 66-book reading plan for a couple of weeks and had three suggestions. All small. All the kind of thing you only notice when you’re actually living with the app. I shipped them this morning. They’re in TestFlight as 1.0.2 and on the web already. The thing I want to write down is that none of them would have happened if David hadn’t reached out.
I’m a consultant. I shipped a mobile app to iOS and Android in two weeks. The code took three days. The paperwork took ten. The moat is not where you think it is.
A friend pushed back on yesterday’s post. The framing made Claude the smart one and me the person pointing at things, and that isn’t true. Here’s the version I should have written.
Two hours, ten merged PRs, no editor. Just a phone, Claude Code, and the prompting habits that turn the model from a coder into a release engineer.
I’m a principal consultant, not a developer. I still ship software. Here’s what agentic coding looks like when the person driving it cares more about outcomes than about the code.
