How I Ship Side Projects in Weeks Instead of Months with Claude as My Rubber Duck

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I wrote my first post about AI back in February. It was high-level; how AI fits into my workflow, advice for new engineers, that sort of thing. This post is the receipts.

I pulled every session file from my local Claude Code install. 222 sessions, 1,714 history entries, 615 of my own messages, 8,117 from Claude. Six months of data. Here’s what it looks like when you treat Claude as a pair programmer for side projects.

Side-Projects on rothdaniel.de

How I Ship Side Projects in Weeks Instead of Months with Claude as My Rubber Duck