When I was young and starting my first web dev agency, I pitched to everybody that ours would be a transparent design studio. We would share the process with the client and involve them at every step.
As I grew more experienced I realize how bad of an idea this is.
Retardmaxxing fixes everything.
Overthinking solved - You are retarded, you don't think
Anxiety solved - You are retarded, you are just doing shit
Confidence - You are retarded, you have no care for what people think
Be retarded.
Anthropic’s @claudeai is basically just noise now. too much too fast. nobody with an actual job has time for all this stuff - and most of it us kind of meh anyway.
you can build high quality software fast and with full cognitive ownership using only three things:
* your own skill
* a sonnet 3.5 level model
* a good process that biases toward human responsibility and accountability
this entire product-vomit reminds me of how certain other companies attempted to devalue existing skill sets by embracing and extending established practices and decorate them with their own products and terminology - thus creating a false lock-in.
you don’t need any of this stuff.
Lines of Code I personally added to RangeWorks by month:
2025-11: 6,907
2025-12: 5,404
2026-01: 50,166
2026-02: 102,248
In January I started using Claude Code.
In February I optimized it.
I am having the best time of my career.