[olex]

+1 for Claude Code. I'm in the exact same boat - several personal projects with something of a backlog in each, that would've taken me maybe a weekend each to get done manually. Sat down with Claude Code a few days ago and hammered all of it out in an afternoon, it's very impressive. Not perfect, and as you say, having a good idea of what we're doing and how helps a great deal vs. figuring everything out from scratch. And having good tests and/or a stable test environment and processes running.

[skerit]

Another bonus for Claude Code: with the max plans, you don't have to worry about per-token costs. Sometimes a certain attempt does not pan out, but I don't have to feel bad because it didn't cost me hundreds of dollars for it to run a few hours.