Right now, as I'm writing this, I have four builds running in four different repositories. Claude Code is generating code in all of them while I switch between windows and queue up the next thing.
A year ago I'd have called that absurd. Today it's just Thursday. And this isn't even bleeding edge anymore.
I used to think of myself as out in front. I'm not. The people I respect most have already moved past prompting. They've built structured flows that produce work without a human at the keyboard. I'm still in the loop where I open the terminal, write the prompt, watch the diff, and write the next one.
I've picked up the skill habit. A lot of Matt Pocock's skills repo has worked its way into my daily setup. The tell is in the metadata. When his issue-creation skill ships an issue, it labels it ready-for-agent. The infrastructure assumes an agent will pick it up unattended. Mine still assumes me.
It took a while to notice the gap, because the work feels good from inside it. Four parallel builds feel like progress. Compared to last year, they are. But the bar moved while I was busy enjoying the speed.
We're past the point where most products need a human reviewing every line of generated code. What I haven't seen anyone automate yet is taste, and architecture. Knowing what to build, and how the code should be structured.
That work still belongs to me. So I have some catching up to do.