I mostly use Claude Code every day, and sometimes Gemini and ChatGPT for a second opinion and research purpose. My favorite connector on Claude is Claude on Chrome which I use to review end to end.
I mostly use Claude code to get into codebases I did not write, first drafts of fixes and migrations, tests, and talking a plan through before I commit to it. I write the plan in plain words first, let it write against that, then read every line.
I have also had to clean up after it. At company I worked last year, a lot of the features was AI written and had not held up in production, so I rewrote it back to a proper standard. That is where I learned where the line is, and it is why I am strict about generated tests which is sometimes a test that passes but asserts nothing, because it tells you that you are covered when you are not.
On automation, the clearest one is a service I built recently. Six outside APIs pulled into one reporting database on a schedule, missing history filled in on its own and resumable if it stops, and writes that cannot duplicate on a re-run. Reporting that was six dashboards and a spreadsheet is now one database.
On output, I worked on a consumer AI product that went from nothing to a live paid product in about 3 weeks on my own. That would have taken me months before. The gain is not that it types faster than me. It is that it removes the hours I used to lose finding my way around, so my thinking goes on the parts that carry real risk.
Full stack engineer with 6+ years building web applications for clients and products in production. Comfortable across React, Next.js, Vue and TypeScript on the front, and Python, FastAPI, PHP and Laravel on the back, plus WordPress, Webflow and e-commerce work when a project calls for it.
I have delivered for US and Canadian teams, currently as an independent contractor for a Canadian payments platform where I built and still run three production systems on my own. I work without supervision, ask questions instead of guessing, and I deliver real features in my first week on an unfamiliar codebase.