Geir Isene sat down at his computer last week and realised something unusual. Almost every program he touched - the window manager, the text editor, the file manager, the terminal, the email client, the calendar - was software he wrote himself. In a few weeks, with Claude Code as his engineering partner, he had replaced his entire desktop computing environment. All of it command line. All of it terminal-native. All of it his.

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A friend of mine, let’s call her Jane, runs a marketing consultancy. Fifteen years in, small team, strong client list, had used Claude for chat only. I offered to spend an hour showing her what’s possible now we’re well beyond that. Wednesday night I realised winging a 75-minute demo next morning would burn too much time on navigation and too little on value. I opened Claude Cowork, uploaded a brief I’d quickly hacked together from emails and went on with my evening.

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