Blake Merryman

Claude Code as Infrastructure ()

From a post by ColdPlankton9273 on r/ClaudeAI :

Everything I do runs through Claude Code. Not just coding. My morning routine, my CRM, my content pipeline, my lead sourcing, my follow-ups. All of it.

I built a system that runs my entire business from the terminal. One command in the morning, and my whole day is laid out. I copy, paste, check boxes, move on.

At some point I stopped thinking of Claude as something I chat with and started treating it as infrastructure. That changed everything.

Don’t get me wrong, I still chat with it, but only on [Claude Code].

Anyone else gone full Claude Code for non-coding work?

I’ll have a lot more to write about this in the future, but I have been using Claude Code to help launch my business . I have a lot of experience building software but I lack experience in the other skills that are required to run your own business: managing infrastructure, product strategy & research, marketing, design, and the day-to-day details of administration. As a solo indie developer, it’s empowering to have a (semi-)reliable personal assistant that can do a little bit of everything.

I even use Claude Code to semi-automate the running of this blog. Claude has helped me:

  • Write a custom Hugo theme that I’m more happy with and which allows me to drop an external dependency.
  • Automate the boilerplate and grunt work required to manage a static site.
  • Audit the site to catch mistakes and inconsistencies.
  • Add a new linked list feature to the blog.
  • Proofread my writing to catch mistakes before publishing.

Now I get to focus almost entirely on the writing.