I’m writing this on my phone while my computer runs code in another room. A year ago that sentence would have meant a note or an email. Now it means I’m building something real.
Claude Code runs on my machine. I connect remotely, give directions, review, and step in when it goes sideways. The computer does the building, I do the thinking, and I can think from anywhere: the metro, a waiting room, the ten minutes before a meeting.
What changed isn’t where I work, it’s the threshold for starting. Before, building needed a clean block of time at a desk, and that block rarely came. Now the bar is: do I have five minutes and a thought? That’s enough to move something forward.
So the dead hours add up to something. The projects that used to stall waiting for a free afternoon now stay warm. The desk is still where the deep work happens, but the phone keeps everything moving in between. That gap between “I should build that” and “I built that” is smaller than it’s ever been.