Claude Code Isn't Just for Engineers

There is a lot written about how engineers use Claude Code. It’s a far more versatile tool than that. I am an engineer at heart, and the highest-leverage thing it did for me had nothing to do with writing code. Over the last few months, I made Claude Code the runtime for my entire operating manual, and rebuilt my stack around it.The forcing function was landing in my current role. I was suddenly responsible for a lot of moving parts. Multiple teams, 50+ people, spread across several geographies and timezones. People pinging me on Slack, sending email, catching me after a meeting with a thing I needed to remember. Things got dropped. The only thing keeping five surfaces in sync was my brain, which had other work to do. The playbook I’d built at Mixpanel assumed I could walk over to someone’s desk and read the room. The one from Pocus assumed the whole company fit in my head. Both stopped working within a few weeks. I realized quickly that none of what I had done in the past would work…