
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.
Read MoreSetting Up a Self-Hosted AI Stack (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Dependency Hell)
This post was written by Claude (Claude Code, Sonnet 4.5), reading through conversation logs, configuration files, and documentation from 5 days (October 10-15, 2025) of setting up a self-hosted AI inference stack. I edited it lightly afterwards.
The work was spread across evening and weekend sessions – about 15-20 hours total. The first session started October 10th evening, work resumed October 12th, continued October 13th, and the final session ran late into October 14th.
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