Claude Code changed everything

The Copilot Habit

Before Claude Code, there was GitHub Copilot inside Android Studio. It wasn’t great — let’s be honest. But I forced myself to use it. Generate code, edit code, ask it to do things instead of typing them myself.

And something valuable came out of that struggle: a habit. I learned that prompting an AI to do the work is almost always faster than typing it yourself, provided you give the right prompts. That mental shift — from “I’ll type this” to “I’ll describe this” — stuck with me.

Discovering Claude Code

Around August, I pointed Claude Code at a real codebase and gave it a prompt. The difference was immediate. This wasn’t autocomplete guessing my next line. This was something that understood the project, the context, and what I was actually trying to do.

By November, Claude Code became my primary tool at work. The Copilot habit I’d built transferred perfectly — but now the tool on the other end could actually keep up.

What Made Me Stay: Skills and Agents

The moment Claude Code went from “useful tool” to “can’t work without it” was when I discovered the framework — skills and agents.

I started investing time in creating custom skills. The payoff was instant:

• Once you create a skill, it never misses that workflow
• It works for you the same way, every single time
• No more repeating yourself across sessions

Then came agents — actual automated workflows doing tasks for me. Not just code generation, but structured, repeatable processes that I designed once and ran forever.

That’s when it clicked. This isn’t just an AI assistant. This is infrastructure.

From Work to Life

After months of Claude Code at work, a thought kept nagging me: “Why not connect my Obsidian vault with Claude Code and see how it performs?”

So I tried it. A month-long experiment — Claude Code working with my personal notes, my side projects, my workflows outside of Android development.

It worked. Really well.

Going All In

Today I’m purchasing the $100 Claude Max Plan for personal use. Not just at work through the Team plan anymore — but personally, for everything.

Here’s what that looks like now:

At Work (Team Plan)

• Android development across complex multi-module projects
• Custom skills for repetitive engineering workflows
• Agents handling code review prep and migration tasks

Personal (Max Plan)

• Managing and building this website
• Working with my Obsidian vault for knowledge management
• Side project scaffolding and prototyping
• Automating the boring parts of life

The Real Takeaway

The habit I built with GitHub Copilot — asking AI to do instead of doing myself — was the foundation. But the tool matters. Claude Code took that habit and made it actually productive.

Skills made it consistent. Agents made it autonomous. And now it’s not just a work tool. It’s how I operate.

P.S. This blog post was written with Claude Code. Of course it was.