I wanted to use Claude Code to help write blog posts for this site. The V-carving post was the first real test — a technical post about building V-carving support in MapleCAM, covering custom libraries, algorithm design, and two months of development. I expected it to take an hour or two. It took all day — about 12 hours wall-clock, 9 hours active — across five sessions.

The post came out well, but the process of getting there was rough. This is what happened and what I changed for next time.