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.
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