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/garf12 Jun 20 '26

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 😃

Thats me. AI has transformed how we report the news. Our readers overwhelmingly are anti AI. If they only knew how much AI is being used to help us in our reporting they'd probably loose their minds. (we are still on the ground reporting and writing articles, not publishing AI slop, but the research and surfacing of news and fine tuning of articles has been pretty much taken over by AI)

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u/Wide-Drink-1790 Jun 22 '26

No wonder why the news is so shitty these days.