Building a SaaS with Claude Code

Coding with AI reminded me what good Engineering Management actually looks like.

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Last week I had an idea for an app as I do from time to time. This time I think it’s well worth building it, so I am doing it with AI! How exciting!! During this process, I am having so much fun and realised that it kinda feels like managing a team but being a lot more hands on.

Let me explain.

I made some initial technical decisions on the tech stack that I am familiar with and I enjoy using. Other than that I have created agents to help me with research, getting up-to-date documentation on libraries I use, creating technical plans and implementing them.

So… my job on this has become and it’s very depending on me communicating…