[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":68},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-\u002Finstall-claude-code":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":56,"description":57,"extension":58,"image":59,"kind":60,"meta":61,"navigation":62,"order":63,"path":64,"seo":65,"stem":66,"__hash__":67},"content\u002Finstall-claude-code.md","install claude code — the first real CLI-AI test",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":53},"minimark",[9,13,24,27,33,36,44,47,50],[10,11,12],"p",{},"So the deal was simple. One month of Claude Code on Pro-Max x20, no safety net. May 21 was day one. Here we go.",[14,15,20],"pre",{"className":16,"code":18,"language":19},[17],"language-text","npm install -g @anthropic-ai\u002Fclaude-code\ncd AwesomeProject\nclaude\n","text",[21,22,18],"code",{"__ignoreMap":23},"",[10,25,26],{},"That sounds trivial, and for most people it is. For me it wasn't. I've shipped with agentic tools, editors and APIs for years — but never the CLI. After almost 20 years in this job, letting something install itself straight into my terminal feels less like a tool choice and more like handing a stranger the keys to the flat.",[28,29,30],"nerd",{},[10,31,32],{},"I started on a C64 and learned on machines we booted into DOS. My terminal is sacred ground. So no, I did not take this lightly.",[10,34,35],{},"And then it ran.",[10,37,38,39,43],{},"I expected \"good\". AI had already been doing extremely good for a long while — I wasn't new to any of this. But this was another level. The thing that got me wasn't raw capability, it was how ",[40,41,42],"strong",{},"natural"," it felt to drive the most powerful tool I'd touched from the one place I'd been guarding for two decades. No tab-switching, no copy-paste dance between an editor and a chat window. Just me, the prompt, and something that actually did the work.",[10,45,46],{},"I started small. One project, and I'll admit I went in skeptical. It worked right away — extremely well. A couple of nudges by voice — \"please use these style sets\", \"use my plugins, my components\" — said once, and it just ran with them. No fighting, no babysitting.",[10,48,49],{},"It ran so well that I pulled in a second project the same evening — and not an easy one. A very, very old thing: frontend long outdated, backend not much better. \"How's it look? Let's just run an update through it.\" By day two I already wanted a third folder in the mix. You start with one window — wow — and before you know it you've got a handful open at once. The first impression already floored me, and it felt like the possibilities were only just getting started.",[10,51,52],{},"That was the moment the challenge stopped being a gimmick and started being the most interesting month I've had in years. I didn't know it yet, but two days later I'd stop talking to one agent and start building a whole team.",{"title":23,"searchDepth":54,"depth":54,"links":55},2,[],"2026-05-21","Day one of the one-month challenge: after almost 20 years of never trusting the CLI, I let Claude Code into my terminal — and the first run was on another level.","md",null,"challenge",{},true,1,"\u002Finstall-claude-code",{"title":5,"description":57},"install-claude-code","AyjUahRppEr0691B7HxaG3llwHEQxPgDN-dFKhonVbg",1782576224704]