COMEBACK
I Shipped My First App in 12 Years — and AI Wrote Half of It
After a decade in product leadership, I opened an editor on a Sunday. By Monday I had something real, deployed, and used by strangers. Here's the honest play-by-play.
// for developers, returning
Now we're shipping again.
Coming back to code, now that AI has changed it all.
$ whoami
> former_dev — now returning
$ git log --since="11 years"
> 0 commits found
$ claude "help me ship again"
> on it. let's build. ▍
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Agentic CLIHand it a task in the terminal; it reads, edits, and runs your project.
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