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I automated everything except the code, and that's where Claude Code actually paid off

I build WordPress plugins on my own, and I started using Claude Code for the obvious reason: to write code faster. Six months later, the part it actually saved me wasn't the code at all. It was everything around the code. Every release, I ran the same small gauntlet. Bump the version, update the readme, write the changelog, check the translation files for gaps, draft the announcement. None of it is hard. All of it is fiddly, and every one of those chores pulled me out of the part of my brain tha

The Data Canary: How Netflix Validates Catalog Metadata

Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale

Predicting Risk in Content Launches: How Data-Driven Insights can Transform Launch Planning

The Evolution of Cassandra Data Movement at Netflix

Thinking Fast & Slow for a Personalized Notification System

A Human-Augmenting Agentic Workflow for Causal Inference

One command for 13 AI coding-assistant context files

Every AI coding tool wants a file describing your project. Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md. Cursor reads .cursor/rules. Then there's AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, Copilot instructions, Aider's CONVENTIONS.md, Windsurf, Cline, Continue, Kilo Code, Trae, Junie, Warp... Same content, a dozen names and formats. Maintaining them by hand is busywork, and the second your stack changes they're stale. npx @horiastanxd/claude-init It analyzes the repo once - language, framework, package manager, scripts, file tree,