I built a terminal monitoring app and custom firmware for a desktop clock with Claude

The way that I've used AI for coding has changed drastically over the last year.

In fact, the rate at which it is changing is probably the most drastic element of it – I can't recall any time since my first year of college, twenty years ago, that I've experienced such a rapid evolution in my own ability to do stuff.

This week I have written a fully self-contained system monitoring daemon and terminal UI, as well as custom Rust firmware for the Ulanzi TC001 desktop clock.

These are two projects that would have remained ideas, never making it out of my notes folder.

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