Claude

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These are the projects where Claude did the work and I wrote down what came out the other side.

Route planning for a 40-foot fifth wheel, which I had been doing by hand across three apps. A six-book LitRPG series, written and voiced, that I have never actually read. And a month of usage pulled apart line by line, because I wanted to know what I was paying for instead of guessing.

The common thread is that each one was a real job with a real deadline, not a demo. Where the output needed fixing, that is in the post too.

Three Claude accounts, one Mac, and the one thing I couldn't fix

Published on Sep 14, 2026

Claude Code authenticates one account per machine and the desktop app holds one login at a time. Both key their credentials to a directory, which turns out to be the whole trick. Here is the setup for a separate account per client, the traps, and the part that is genuinely impossible.

My agent loop was 62% of a day's tokens. I blamed the code reviews.

Published on Sep 5, 2026

An automated agent loop ran 30 iterations inside one conversation and used 62% of a day's tokens. The code reviews I was suspicious of were half a percent. Here is the mechanism, and what actually fixes it.

I stopped building our RV routes by hand

Published on Aug 7, 2026

Planning one RV travel day used to cost me about two hours in Google Maps. Handing the whole constraint problem to Claude Cowork turned that into a few minutes, and the routes are better than the ones I was building.

I measured where my AI budget actually goes

Published on Jul 31, 2026

I had a confident theory about which projects were expensive. I was wrong four separate ways, and the thing I was rationing turned out to be one percent of the total.

The six-book series I've never read

Published on Jul 31, 2026

I used Claude Cowork to write a six-book LitRPG series and render it as a cast audiobook. Four hours of finished audio cost $22.09.