I Used Claude Code for 30 Days on My Rails App. Here’s What I Learned

I’ll be honest: I was skeptical. Not in the “I hate AI” way, more in the “I’ve tried enough hype-driven tools to know most of them just shift the frustration around” way. But Claude Code kept showing up in conversations I trusted, so in January I made a deal with myself. Thirty days. Real project. No cherry-picking the easy wins. This is what actually happened. The Project I was working on a mid-size Rails 8 app. A SaaS product with a fairly standard setup: PostgreSQL, Sidekiq for b...