This is the second article in a series about using AI efficiently. In the first article we built tools to measure AI productivity with real session logs.

This time we'll look at a concrete case study: modernizing a 15-year-old homemade PHP blog in a single afternoon, with the help of Claude Code.

The blog you're reading right now was the guinea pig.

This is the first article of a series about using AI efficiently, with a focus on actionable and practical advice backed by real data.

In this first installment we'll look at how to actually measure the time you gain (or lose) when working with AI, using real session logs from actual work.

The twist?

This article is partially being written by the very AI system it's documenting, while working on the tools to measure its own productivity.

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