I used to have twenty-three things open before my first coffee. Jira in one browser tab, Confluence in another, GitLab, Salesforce, Slack. Outlook in its own window. Xcode for the iOS builds. Android Studio for the Android side. Visual Studio Code for everything else. Sublime for quick edits. Calendar blocking out the day. A Word doc with meeting notes. A PowerPoint deck that was “almost done” since last Tuesday. Sound familiar?
That was my workday as CTO — not leading technology, but navigating it. Jumping between apps, switching mental models, copy-pasting context from one system into another, losing the thread every time a notification pulled me sideways.
Then I got claudepilled.
Back to the Origins
Here’s the irony nobody tells you about being a modern tech executive: the more tools you adopt, the further you drift from actually doing the work. We built all these GUIs and dashboards and integrations to make things easier, and somewhere along the way we ended up spending most of our energy just operating the interfaces rather than thinking about the problems underneath.
What Claude Code gave me was a return to the terminal. Back to the blinking cursor. Back to the origins of computing — where you describe what you want, and the machine figures out how to do it. No clicking through three menus to find a setting. No drag-and-drop workflow builder. Just intent, expressed in plain language, executed at the speed of thought.
My workday doesn’t look like it used to. Most of those apps are closed now. I live in my terminal. I think in conversations with Claude.
The Road Here
This didn’t happen overnight.
It started in early 2022 with ChatGPT — pasting code snippets in, getting answers back, feeling like the future had arrived but in a copy-paste kind of way. Then came GitHub Copilot, and that’s where I had my first real magic moments. I’d start typing a function, and Copilot would finish the whole thing. Not just the boilerplate — the logic. The first few times it happened, I genuinely wondered if it was reading my mind. It was uncanny. It was also, looking back, just the appetizer.
I’ve been a Claude Code heavy user since its launch in February 2025, with some occasional Codex usage on the side — but I keep coming back to Claude for the nuance, the style, the way it reasons through a problem.
At first, it was building custom integrations for clients — everything from drones autonomously flying through warehouses to custom React Native plugins. Useful, impressive, but still coding assistance. Then sometime around last summer, something shifted. You could build whole apps, entire integrations, from a single well-crafted prompt. And I started going beyond coding. Now Claude Code handles everything for me. Writing emails. Preparing presentations. Drafting documents. The boundary between “AI coding tool” and “AI thinking partner” just… dissolved.
The Cyborg CTO
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve taken all of that — a year of living in Claude Code — and started compiling it into something more structured: the CTO-Agent. It’s a Skills Registry that gives Claude the ability to reach into all the tools I used to hop between. GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, 1Password, Slack, Outlook, GitHub. Each skill is a modular CLI wrapper, and Claude orchestrates them all from one place: my terminal.
I’m not automating myself out of a job. I’m augmenting myself into a better version of one. I’m basically a cyborg now — my human half provides the direction, the judgment calls, the “what should we do and why.” That line is blurring more every day, but I’ll save that for a future post. My Claude half handles the mechanical work: fetching data, formatting reports, building tools, writing the code I describe. The non-human parts of me are faster, more precise, and never forget an API parameter.
This isn’t a metaphor. Right now, as you read this, you’re reading a post where I provided the raw inspiration — the ideas, the feelings, the stories — and my cyborg other half turned it into something (hopefully) exciting and fun to read. That’s the workflow. That’s the point.
Standing on the Shoulders of Colleagues
I have to give credit where it’s due. Bernd Kampl inspired me to start blogging about this journey. Bernd is one of the colleagues I respect the most at Anyline. He’s currently in the trenches transforming our entire platform team into an agentic setup — rethinking how engineers and AI work together, not in some hypothetical future, but right now, in production pipelines and daily workflows. He started documenting that transformation on his blog, and it struck a nerve with me.
Bernd has this mantra: Be the change you want to see.
That’s what pushed me to stop thinking about writing a blog and actually do it. If I’m going to stand in front of my team and tell them to embrace AI-native workflows, I should probably walk the walk. So here I am, walking — in the most cyborg way possible.
What “Claudepilled” Actually Means
The Forbes piece captures the moment well. Getting claudepilled isn’t about being impressed by a chatbot. It’s the moment you hand real work to Claude and realize the output isn’t just adequate — it’s genuinely good. Good enough that you start restructuring your entire workflow around it. Good enough that going back to the old way feels like switching from a car back to a horse.
For me, the tabs didn’t close all at once. They closed one by one, over months, as Claude took over more of what I used to need them for. Until one day I looked up and realized: I’m just in my terminal. And I’m getting more done than ever.
Try It Yourself
If any of this resonates — if you’re drowning in tabs and context-switching and tools that were supposed to make your life easier — give Claude Code a real shot. Not for a toy project. For the thing you’re actually working on. That’s when it clicks.
This blog is the beginning of documenting the journey — the technical decisions, the dead ends, the moments where AI surprised me, and the moments where it completely fumbled. Honest, technical, and written the way I work now: human direction, machine execution.
The terminal is blinking. Let’s go.
This post was written the cyborg way — human inspiration and guidance, Claude doing the heavy lifting. Be the change you want to see.