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.

The new blog engine is alive!

It took quite some time, and probably has some bugs, but I guess it has reached a good enough maturity level.

Hopefully I will now be able to finish the last part of My Software History without feeling like punching through my monitor!

No, Kira is not the name of my girlfriend, it is not the name of my cat either, and I'm not in love with any particular film celebrity bearing a similar name.

Kira is only a small device you connect to your network, which in turn allows you to control anything that uses infra-red, kind of like an universal remote control.