I've been building apps for about six years, and I've always had the same problem. I'd start coding with no real plan and keep adding stuff until I got bored. Nothing ever felt finished, so nothing really shipped.

When Claude Code came along I figured that would fix it. It made it worse.

"Just one more feature" used to take a weekend. Now it takes twenty minutes, so I added a lot more of them. My apps got bigger, and none of them got any closer to done.

Speed was never the problem

Code is cheap now. Your agent will build pretty much whatever you ask, and it'll do it fast. The hard part is picking what's actually worth building, and knowing when a release is done so you can stop and ship it.

The agent can't help much with that on its own, because it doesn't know your plan. Ask it "what's next?" and it reads the repo and guesses.

A couple of weeks ago I tested how bad this actually was.…