A workday with Claude Code

Tuesday, 27 October 2026

Design planner
1. 06:13 Start a design spec extractor
2. 06:25 Brief a prototype builder
3. 06:58 Ask the spec tab for a fidelity review
4. 07:19 Send the fix round back for a re-gate
5. 07:31 Close the spec tab, send the last fixes
6. 07:36 Verify fix round three and its media
Morning triage
1. 06:17 Collect urgent tickets from tracker and chat
2. 06:20 Start two investigations in new tabs
3. 06:23 Post a short triage report to my phone
4. 06:32 Ship the ready tickets, one tab each
5. 09:46 Allowlist is set, tell the ship tab to merge
6. 17:41 Hand the third PR to a new ship tab
Move planner
1. 06:20 Check a bulk move ticket against the code
2. 06:22 Hand a read-only code trace to a child
3. 06:30 Read the trace report
4. 06:35 Write the sign-off plan page
5. 06:36 Screenshot it, scan for secrets, push
6. 06:39 Plan host unreachable, flag it to the parent
Schedule planner
1. 06:20 Investigate automatic schedule application
2. 06:23 Start two code tracers, one per service
3. 06:39 Read both trace reports
4. 06:46 Chart the results, build the plan page
5. 06:49 Save the findings to memory. Done
Code trace
1. 06:22 Trace the bulk move path, read-only
2. 06:27 Find the server-side flag for the overview
3. 06:29 Write trace notes, verify line cites
Prototype
1. 06:25 Build a local prototype with mock data
2. 06:35 Write tests for the review steps
3. 06:56 Commit the prototype locally
4. 07:07 Re-seed, re-record stills and video
5. 07:18 Commit fix round one
6. 07:35 Commit fix round three
Editor ship
1. 06:33 Merge main, resolve one conflict
2. 06:35 Start an evidence recorder
3. 06:48 Open PR, move the ticket to review
4. 06:49 Start an adversarial reviewer
5. 07:50 Approved. Hold merge for a flag allowlist
6. 09:46 Merged
Editor evidence
1. 06:36 Find a free dev slot and wait for the lock
2. 06:40 Stop an idle watcher to free RAM
3. 06:47 Record the before and after flows
4. 06:49 Build a labelled mp4 and gif
5. 06:53 Splice the recording into the PR body
6. 06:55 Release the slot. Done
Practice ship
1. 06:38 Merge main, resolve three spec conflicts
2. 06:43 Start a gates runner and an evidence recorder
3. 06:44 Open PR, move the ticket to review
4. 06:58 Add guards and specs from the review, push
5. 08:30 Ask for approval, arm squash auto-merge
6. 08:43 Merged
Practice review
1. 06:45 Pull existing comments to skip duplicates
2. 06:52 Post three inline findings
3. 06:53 Post the summary and read it back
Editor review
1. 06:49 Fetch the diff and existing comments
2. 06:50 Start a second-model challenge
3. 06:51 Trace every reader of the editor preference
4. 06:57 Post one inline finding
5. 06:58 Second model failed auth, post a solo summary
Cron triage
1. 07:30 Cron run: collect urgent tickets
2. 07:30 Check the pick is not already taken
3. 07:31 Start one investigation in a new tab
4. 07:51 Send the plan's open questions to my phone
5. 08:01 Retry the plan push. Done
Find bar plan
1. 07:31 Check prior art for an in-page find bar
2. 07:32 Trace the find shortcut and highlight code
3. 07:37 Check open PRs that touch the same files
4. 07:43 Write the plan page, check for em dashes
5. 07:46 Screenshot the plan at phone width
6. 07:48 Plan ready for sign-off
PR reviewer
1. 11:35 Review a teammate's PR in a clean worktree
2. 11:37 Run its specs on a scratch database
3. 11:39 Write a spec to probe an edge case
4. 11:41 Build a review page, screenshot it
5. 11:44 Hold approval: specs pass, scope gaps
Panel ship
1. 17:42 Merge main into the open PR
2. 17:44 Start gates, evidence and review tabs
3. 17:56 Write failing specs for two findings
4. 18:08 Fix both, run red then green gates
5. 18:34 Reply to threads, post the round summary
6. 18:41 Start review round three
Panel review
1. 17:45 Review round two, diff since round one
2. 17:46 Start a second-model challenge
3. 17:51 Run the merged test suites under a lock
4. 17:52 Post two inline findings
5. 17:53 Post the round summary

sessions: 30
commits: 12
PRs merged: 2