I migrated my entire note stack from Notion to plain Markdown files. The process took three days. What I lost wasn't what I thought I was going to lose — and that tells me something uncomfortable about why I was really using Notion.
I used Claude Code for weeks without setting up a single routine. Assumed it was overhead for people with too much free time. Then a post hit 611 points on HN and I couldn't look away anymore. Here's what changed — and why the resistance was entirely mine.
Months watching agents dump code without context and break everything. I ran a real experiment: force the agent to produce a research artifact before touching a single file. What I measured changed how I work with AI forever.
A 702-point HN thread confirmed what I'd been feeling: Claude Code degraded in February. But the real problem was how much of my own technical judgment I'd quietly outsourced without realizing it.
32 years in the dev trenches. Here I write what I learned, what I broke, and what nobody tells you in the tutorials.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.