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The AI tool I used to ship 13 sites today
Welcome. You signed up for one honest review per Sunday. Here's the first.
Claude Code. Anthropic's CLI agent. I just used it to rebuild the homepage of 13 sites, set up a newsletter pipeline, and rewire content generation to a free LLM provider — in about six hours, by myself. The honest version: it's a senior pair-programmer, not a junior. Costs real money ($20+/mo). Noticeably better at multi-file refactors than Cursor or anything else I've tried. Worth the spend if you ship things alone…
Operator and publisher running a portfolio of independent AI-tool publications. Reviews come from real production use, not vendor demos. Read the full story.
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