Amplifying Myself: How I Use Claude to Build a Premium App and a Blockchain Game — While Still Having a Life
There was a time — not long ago — when I looked at AI coding tools with the same suspicion I reserve for productivity gurus who’ve never shipped anything. You know the type: sneakers, just had lunch at McDonalds and preaching productivity — but never had a real job in their life.
But real work — I mean real, daily grind, shipping-to-production work — that was supposed to be done the hard way, right? Test, debug, tweak, rewrite. Coffee-fueled sprints. Zero shortcuts. Maximum control.
That’s when time stopped being a vague constraint and became a screaming, non-negotiable premium resource. No more long debugging sessions. No more “I’ll make time to fix this later.” No more 12-hour weekends to optimize just one controller.
I didn’t have the luxury of coding the way I used to. I had to find a way to amplify myself — not delegate, not outsource, but amplify.
