Claude Code
Originally posted in Discord on 2026-04-03
TL;DR:
Started using Claude Code (AI with full access to the codebase). Rewrote the entire logging system in under a week instead of a month. Development speed is way up. TikTok mode app might drop late spring/mid summer instead of fall.
Hey @everyone, recently I started actively using a tool called Claude Code. You've probably heard of it. For those who don't know, it's an AI you can plug directly into your project, giving it full access to your source code, meaning full context of your entire codebase. You work alongside it as a pair.
Last week, as a test, I decided to completely rewrite the logging system on the site. Previously, logs were just dumped in a messy format and I analyzed them through my own internal tool for various metrics, mostly performance measurements. The new system stores detailed structured logs (in JSONL format) with room for expansion, all shipped to one centralized server. Logs are written through a custom fast logger with zero unnecessary memory allocations. Everything gets loaded into a ClickHouse database and visualized through Grafana (both of these tools were completely new to me). I'll share some example dashboards below. Now I can visually see all the data in near real time. Server load across all sites, response times, server health, memory usage, user events like logins, likes, and much more. Without Claude Code, this would've taken me at least a month on my own. Working as a pair, we got it done in under a week.
What this means is that development speed is going to increase significantly. The app with TikTok mode might come out earlier than expected. A possible test by late spring or mid summer, instead of fall.