I shipped 32,784 lines of code in two days with Claude Code. I put that number in a LinkedIn post, and the first thing I wrote right after it was that lines of code is a weak metric. I meant it. The number is the least useful fact about the project, and this post is about the facts that matter more.

Here is what the two days covered: a full rebuild of this site on Next.js 16, 228 blog posts rewritten against real keyword data, 543 tests passing, and zero broken URLs. Two years ago a project like that would have taken me weeks. This time the typing was not the slow part. Neither was the writing.

The slow part was deciding what to build, and what to leave out. That is the real Claude Code workflow lesson, and it is the one I want to spend most of this post on.

The Short Answer: What Actually Changed

With Claude Code, the cost of producing code dropped close to zero for me. The cost of deciding which code should exist did not move.…