Productivitymaxxing with Claude Code
I've seen the future and I never wanna go back
Here’s one way I’m using Claude Code for a non-coding related task to be more productive.
I wrote about this idea in my piece “Self-documenting software” but I’ve come a little bit further now, so wanted to share some more.
So, basically, the long and short of it is, we’ve started to migrate our knowledge base away from Hubspot CMS and into a static site, deployed from a GitHub repository.
Nothing crazy or revolutionary. This is always how many developer docs sites work, for example.
The powerful thing here is just the flexibility you get, and the vast amount of work you can do at speed and scale, using an agent like Claude Code.
Here are some of the prompts I’ve written in the last few hours, which I think illustrate just how powerful and revolutionary this workflow is.
"Here's how our app looks now {screenshot}. Review all pages, identify any screenshots using outdated UI and create a ticket in GitHub to replace it. Then, use Playwright MCP to open up this page in our demo environment, take a new screenshot, and replace it in the page. Once done, mark that issue as completed. Then give me a summary of changes”.
“Review every page for broken links. If you can fix it, do it, otherwise create a ticket in the repo”.
“Review every page and find places where we mix and match nomenclature or terminology and standardise it according to docs/terminology.md”.
“Review the entire docs repo and suggest ways we could improve clarity, readability and structure”.
It’s not hyperbolic to say that, this work would’ve taken days if not weeks, and now can be done in minutes and hours. Also, to do it in Hubspot CMS would be the literal definition of a nightmare. 150 browser tabs, moving between them back and forth, Chrome screeching to a halt with memory overload. No way to “batch” work into a pull request for review etc.
Once you’ve seen this way of working, it’s hard to imagine going back. I want to work like this on everything. Backlogs, roadmaps, memos, content etc.
This workflow is unlikely to go mainstream anytime soon, to be clear, but I think it’s a good glimpse at what’s possible it terms of single-person-productivity today with the likes of Claude Code.
