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Public story · 2026-02-20 · source-backed
Paul Ford, former CEO of Postlight (a respected software consultancy), published a New York Times opinion piece that became the most-shared AI essay of the week. His claim: Claude Code "suddenly got much better" in November and he completed a data migration project that would have cost a client $350,000 (months of work, multiple engineers) using the $200/month Claude plan over weekends. A website redesign that would have commanded $25,000 was trivial. His most-quoted line: "All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it." Amplified by Simon Willison, John Gruber, Jason Kottke, and HackerNews.
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Paul Ford uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic
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Anthropic released Claude Code / Shared entities / Same source domain / What happened next
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Claude Code competes with Cursor / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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Boris Cherny uses Claude Code / Shared entities / Same source domain / What happened next
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Claude Code uses Sonnet / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / What happened next
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