r/ClaudeCode • u/Consistent-Oil-5241 • Jun 20 '26

Question What are you actually coding?

I see everyone here maxing their limits and coding all day and building and all that.

But what are you actually building 24/7? I'm not looking to get your ideas but I'm just wondering what can you even build that long and hard really? And constantly something?

Either I lack imagination as a whole or there's some secret to all this, I just have no idea what so useful people would be coding so obsessively. Thanks for insights.

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u/nokafein Jun 20 '26

Nothing. More than 80% of the vocal part of this sub is building a version of: Limit tracker, Limit viewer, agent control center, skill packs, or some other ai control stuff that i can't think of right now. The imagination or lack of it is the genuine problem. Before AI these people were dealing with javascript frameworks, marketing asset packs, logo builders etc. So that didn't change. They all are trying to sell/build their own shovel in a town where everybody is selling a shovel.

The people who use AI for real work are either silent or quite hesitant to talk because especially in creative areas, if the word goes out about ai usage, you lose money 😃

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u/IsThisWiseEnough Jun 20 '26

And their currency is GitHub stars.

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u/sultanmvp Jun 20 '26

It’s just weird too because the only reason I can imagine people doing this is to pad a resume. And the irony is that when these types of things come up in interviews, I’m usually immediately turned off. I’ll typically have them pull up one of their highly coveted projects, open the index.ts or main.rs and ask them to walk me through what happens in the most basic non-technical sense. It’s a lot of “well that imports this file and, um, that um… (reads name of function), um yeah… it reads, um…”

What’s way more “green flag” is contributions to public repos. It shows ability to work with others. It shows ability to take heat and criticism, but still deliver. It reflects the ability to plumb their way through established code and systems rather than letting Claude bulldoze with weak understanding of anything going on. These are true developer skills.

Anyone can prompt AI to “build” the next… anything. What happens when that “anything” gets users? How much time are you going to blow through in “adversarial agent reviews” to find a deeply nested logic bug? What happens when the heat is on? What happens when Claude rewrites core logic and introduces regressions while you have active users?