Three Months With Claude Code: What 35 Jobs and 26 Killed Ones Taught Me

Bottom line up front. AI support cut 90% of my writing time. Three months in, I built 35 automation jobs and killed 26. Volume alone doesn't make money — that part I confirmed the hard way.

3 months in

35 jobs active

26 killed

90% writing time saved

01 · What I have to show for 3 months, in numbers

Start with the tangible stuff. This is the automation surface I've built up over three months. Every morning, launchd runs the lot without me touching anything.

35 LaunchAgent jobs (26 killed)

12 project folders (5 blogs + α)

3 custom skills (only SKILL.md loads)

19 slash commands ( /run-daily & co.)

On top of that: 13 CLAUDE.md files (1 main + 12 per-project) and 3 hook scripts . Every job ships with a wrapper, plist, and log file — so the actual file count is well past 100.

02 · Five things that actually save tokens

In Claude Code, context tokens are the bill.…