After 150 hours in Claude Code, here are the 10 lessons that 10x’d my output: use the CLI instead of the pricey API, work in plan mode, spawn agent teams, install skills, and know when to start a fresh chat.
In 2019 our travel sites made about $45,000 a month. By 2023, AI had cut that by ninety percent. Here is how I am using the same technology to rebuild: the tool to start with, what it costs, and the mistakes that will burn you.
I built a YouTube thumbnail app by talking to Claude Code in plain English. Here is what it does, the two AIs that run it, what it actually costs, and the two things that broke along the way.
My travel blog now writes 5,000-word posts for about $3 in AI credits, and my job is a 30-minute review. Here’s the full pipeline, stage by stage, plus the five things that broke while I built it.