I'm no longer using coding assistants on personal projects

Note I wrote this post as an exercise during a meeting of IndieWebClub Bangalore . I’ve spent the last few months figuring out how best to use LLMs to build software. In January and February, I used Claude Code to build a little programming language in C. In December I used local a local LLM to analyze all the journal entries I wrote in 2025 , and then used Gemini to write scripts that could visualize that data. Besides what I’ve written about publicly, I’ve also used Claude Code to: Write and debug Emacs L