What a single day with Claude Code actually looks like
People talk about AI saving time, but it can be hard to picture what that means day to day. Here is what one day actually looked like for me. Using Claude Code through VS Code, and in between marking course assessments, I have: Built a new campaign landing page from scratch. Then created a full campaign outline with step-by-step tasks, some of which Claude can execute directly with my oversight. Restructured my Airtable CRM. Not just tidying fields. Claude suggested better ways to connect contacts, companies, enquiries, and events together, then built the formulas, rollups, and relationships to make it work. This is the kind of structural thinking that would normally need a consultant or developer. Built a full automation logging and monitoring system across my n8n workflows. Every workflow now logs success or failure to Airtable automatically, with an error catcher and a daily summary email. I went from hoping my automations were running to actually knowing. None of this was copy-paste prompting. It was collaborative. Claude suggested approaches, I pushed back or redirected, and we iterated. Some things took multiple attempts. But the volume of meaningful work completed in a single day would have taken me weeks working alone or cost thousands in consultant time. For anyone still thinking about trying Claude Code: it is not a chatbot that writes blog posts. It is a working partner that builds real systems. The more I keep using it, the better it gets.