A safe way to edit database content with AI coding tools
AI coding tools edit files. Your content lives in a database. This is the pull, diff, push workflow that connects the two without hand-writing SQL against production.
How I built this site with Claude Code.
Three weeks, end to end: PHP backend, vanilla JS, a CSS design system I built by hand, the lot. Claude did most of the typing. The speed is the obvious story. The one worth telling is which decisions I'd still own and which I'd hand back.
Claude Code and the context window on bigger projects
My website is close to a thousand files. I keep Claude Code useful by giving each session one task, naming the files involved, and keeping the project instructions current.
What is vibe coding, and when should you use it?
Vibe coding is useful for disposable experiments where failure is cheap. Software you intend to keep needs review, tests, version control, and an owner.
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