It's truly remarkable how much easier it is to manage dependencies and upgrades now.
Node upgrades, library upgrades—the kind of work that used to be genuinely painful—are now solved in moments. I used Claude to update all my dependencies on this site, and it ran into a major breaking issue in one of my libraries. The kind of thing that would normally send me down a rabbit hole of frustration, building resentment toward maintainers who don't use semantic versioning properly, or ship breaking changes for no particular reason. It was a perfectly good library! Why go messing with it?!?
But Claude just... fixed it in a few seconds.
It inferred enough about the intent of my usage to solve the problem gracefully. No manual debugging, no Stack Overflow spelunking, no reading through changelogs trying to figure out what broke. I copied the error output from the Vercel build and pasted it in. Problem solved on the next push.
Between AI assistance and modern build tools, the iteration loop is so fast now. I used v0 to build a new site template, asked Claude to integrate it, and it did it nearly perfectly. I added my style preferences and the features I wanted, and now we've got this fresh new site on the same day.
I authored this very post by speaking to my computer and asking it to make a new post on my site. All I needed to do was be in the right folder with Claude running, and it cranked the markdown out.
So here's to the new world of development 🍻. It genuinely is less painful than before. I'm enjoying building products more than I have in quite a while.