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Claude Code Did 2 Days of Work in 1 Hour: My 2026 Goal Progress

ShunM
ShunM
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[5/9-5/15] 2026 Goal Progress

This week was the week I got hit with the body trouble I'd been worrying about for a while. It finally caught up with me.

In exchange — strange way to put it — I learned how to rest, and how to shift to what I can do at home.

Health

Gave Up the Gym, Switched to Home + Treadmill

I couldn't make it to the gym this week because of the physical issues. Disappointing, but it is what it is.

Instead, I switched to home strength training and walking while doing Duolingo.

  • Dumbbell press
  • Side raises
  • Abs
  • Mostly home-friendly exercises my personal trainer taught me

Even if I can't go to the gym, I can still do what I can do. That's only possible because my trainer gave me a workable menu — I'm grateful.

Treadmill × Duolingo Is Quietly Working

I started walking on the home treadmill while doing Duolingo.

This turned out to be surprisingly good:

  • Time passes naturally while I walk, so Duolingo study time gets longer without effort
  • It's not just lazily protecting the streak — stuff actually sticks in my memory
  • More walking steps = more English study time

My rule: as long as I'm doing 1,000 steps, I keep doing Duolingo. 1,000 steps doesn't go by in a couple of minutes, so the learning naturally goes deeper.

Sleep Stable, No Headaches

My bedtime is all over the place, but I have to be up by 8 AM no matter what, so I'm always up at 6:30, 7, or 8.

Thankfully, no oversleeping headaches this week. Meals have been healthy too — good signs all around.

Smoking Cut in Half — Without Even Trying

This one surprised me a bit.

I'm not consciously counting at all, yet my count dropped to about half. Thinking about why, I have a hunch.

Because I barely smoked during last week's trip, smoking at my usual pace now makes me feel sick. So the gap between cigarettes naturally got longer, and the count dropped as a result.

Apparently the trip effect is still working quietly. Dropping without consciously trying is the easiest way.

Work

Claude Code + Multi-Agent: "2 Days Became 1 Hour"

The highlight this week was brushing up and extending my AI-driven workflows.

I'm mostly using Claude Code, but with Claude Code's multi-agent features, work that used to take 2 full days finished in 1 hour while I wasn't even watching. What a time.

I finally feel like the systems I've built actually make "AI-driven is more efficient" a real statement.

The Harness Mindset: Deliberately Not Letting AI Do Things

That said, I'm not delegating everything to AI.

AI productivity news is endless, but news about AI being weaponized — exploit detection, malicious tooling — also flows in daily. So I work with a harness-style mindset: "I know AI could probably do this, but I'm deliberately not letting it."

Specifically:

  • Don't show it files only I should be able to see
  • Don't pass it pages with personal information
  • In places where human warmth matters, avoid putting AI in the loop

That last one is important, I think. Letting AI handle it feels modern, but it just ends up as copy-paste output. If it's going to be copy-paste anyway, it's easier and more human to just type out whatever pops into my head reflexively.

Building "Organizations" with AI: Leader–Subordinate Structure

There was an internal share about this, and running AI as an organization is a fascinating approach. The precision is also high.

I vaguely assumed AI would grow into something that does everything solo. The whole "make AI teams" thing might just be a hack that disappears in 1 year, I thought.

But the world changes massively in a year, so I've come around to: hacking on it now has value.

Concretely, what I'm doing:

  • Split information gathering into specialist agents by domain
  • Place a leader agent that handles them
  • I (human) only talk to the top leader
  • Skills the subordinates use are built and updated by ordering the leader
  • Cron jobs run activities to upgrade the agents' own skills

It really feels like I'm leading a team of people. That's a new sensation in itself.

The Challenge Is the "Human Bottleneck" — But You Don't Have to Do It All

Nothing major is troubling me, but humans being the bottleneck is still the structural challenge.

My recent conclusion though: humans don't need to overextend to clear low-priority work. Businesses always have priorities — you just do them top-down.

There's no real need to rush through "do this in the gaps" pull requests.

Obvious in principle. But with AI now multiplying our throughput, I think this needs to be re-emphasized.

Money

Lots of Profit-Taking This Week, Halfway to the Year's Target

Another week of take profit, buy back in, repeat.

It's only May, and I'm already about halfway to my target. Going well, you could say.

The paid article project is progressing well too.

That said, when I'll actually publish it as paid is still genuinely unclear. Could be 3 months, could be a year. Either way, I'm doing new things, and it's fun.

Duolingo Hit 134 Days, Deepened by Walking Combo

Duolingo is at 134 consecutive days.

As mentioned, pairing it with the treadmill has turned it from streak maintenance into learning that actually sticks. That's a real improvement.

Moving Abroad: Lately I'm Just "Want to Live There for 1 Year"

About moving abroad. Honestly speaking, I love Japan.

  • Comfortable
  • The food is amazing
  • Nobody has guns

Even so, as a life experience, I'd want to live abroad for about a year — not so much "emigrate." That's where I land lately.

If a chance comes, I'll take it, but for now I just want to keep myself in a state where I can fit in whenever.

Closing

I got hit with the body trouble I'd been dreading, so next week is going to be a let's-actually-fix-my-health week.

Hospital visits about 3 times. I want to tackle a long-standing issue properly next week.

But, I don't want my work productivity to drop. So I want to build systems that let implementation auto-progress while I'm at the hospital.

  • Adopt methods to send instructions to Claude Code from my phone
  • Make travel time and waiting room time still move implementation forward
  • Improve QOL while maintaining productivity

What a time we're living in. Making AI write code while sitting in a hospital waiting room.

I'll keep at it.

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