Field Notes from a Solo Builder — Shipping the Beloved Claude Code Buddy Into the Wild - Part I

Last Thursday afternoon, I watched my community grieve. Anthropic had deprecated /buddy — that witty, opinionated code-reviewing personality inside Claude Code — and developers were genuinely heartbroken. People were sad. They didn't want to close their terminals — some were leaving them open just to hold onto it for a little longer. Posts were going up in all caps. There was something raw about the reaction that struck a cord in my heart: this wasn't just frustration about a missing feature. T...