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Claude Code: I Let an AI Agent Code in My Terminal for 48 Hours. It Committed Real Code.

February 1, 20268 min readBy Saad Minhas

Claude Code · AI · AI Agents · Development · Terminal

Claude Code: I Let an AI Agent Code in My Terminal for 48 Hours. It Committed Real Code.

I let Claude Code—Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent—work in my codebase for 48 hours. It debugged broken components, refactored modules, added error handling across 17 API endpoints, wrote documentation, and even fixed a JWT security issue. All from my terminal, autonomously.


This isn't code completion or pair programming. It's an AI that reads your codebase, figures out what to do, and does it. I reviewed when it was done.


Read the full article on Medium for the full story: what worked, what felt weird, the checkpoint feature that changed everything, and whether you should actually use this.

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