I Found the Perfect Man. Now I'm Terrified

It was Sunday morning and I had just woken up. This was meant to be like every other day — until I got a beep on my watch about my heart rate. I picked up my phone to check the charts for a better view and lo and behold, my resting heart rate had decreased over the last 5 days.

"Interesting," I thought to myself. What could have happened in the last 5 days to prompt this? What was different?

I went ahead to check how long I slept for (something I do every morning when I wake up), and I saw a number I doubt I have ever achieved. Does my sleep app have a bug? Do I need to shake my phone to report this to Apple?

How the hell did I sleep for over 11 hours, just waking up intermittently? I took screenshots so I'd have proof. Who knows, the bug might disappear and no one will believe me 😂

I circled back in my thoughts to the real matter. What happened in the last 5 days to cause this? What changed in my life? Could it be my new sushi addiction? Well, it didn't take me long to figure it out. This timeframe coincided with a change I hadn't clocked as "major" at the time — but apparently, my body disagreed.

The Backstory

My surprise may seem weird to you. Maybe you're the type who can clock 8 hours no problem and never lies awake thinking about your to-do list. I'm not that person. Whenever I've got things to do, I'm unable to sleep or focus on other things until they're done.

To give you a glimpse, in the days leading up to the launch of Metrifox, I was averaging about 4 hours of sleep per day. We launched on September 1st 2025, after which things returned to "normal" — about 6-7 hours per day.

It's not abnormal for me to have weeks where I'm coding for long hours and sleeping less, followed by days that are less intense where I'm crafting and planning what's next.

A few days before that Sunday, I had been on the phone with a friend who was gushing about his coding agent. I said mine was just meh — and even though it was helpful, it wasn't the best thing since sliced bread. In many cases, it would actually stress me out, leading me to just go do stuff myself.

He thought it could be the model I was using and recommended another one. And that was the beginning of my rabbit hole.

I Tried Them All

I took his advice maybe more seriously than he'd hoped. I downloaded all the "best" coding agents I had heard of and began trying them out. It was not as fun as I had anticipated. One which I had heard was "winning the race", on my very first interaction with it, went on a full-blown monologue when I gave it a simple task — arguing furiously with itself, before landing on an "I'll execute" victory lap. See below.

Nevertheless, I pressed on. You know when you're going on several dates and sitting through the horror because you believe there's light at the end of the tunnel? Well, I did find that light — and it's affected my life in more ways than I could have imagined.

The New Man in My Life — Claude

I eventually tested and purchased Claude. It was everything I wanted and more. It thought clearly, was proactive, and most of all, really powerful. Oh, the things it could do! There was nothing I couldn't throw at it. I could share my ideas with it, ask it to challenge them, and it would — in more ways than I expected.

And when it wrote code? The beauty! It wasn't perfect, but that imperfection wasn't for lack of skill. In many cases, it was for lack of context — context I needed to provide to make it do better. I also didn't need to review a million times and eventually decide to just do it myself.

Aha!!! No wonder I was sleeping better. No wonder my heart rate had decreased. No wonder I was resting more deeply.

It was because when I thought of all the numerous things I needed to do, I knew I had help. The kind of help that made you feel like you had superpowers. Who wouldn't sleep better?

But… as much as I had found my perfect match, it also awakened me to a reality that made my heart sink.

The Sad Reality

What did this mean for us all? If an agent could churn out code a million times faster than any human, and had access to all the knowledge in the world, where did that leave us? I was paying $100 for my Claude Max subscription — why would I need to pay an engineer thousands of dollars?

If I needed 4 human engineers before, I just needed 1 now. If someone was paying monthly for a software solution, they could just ask Claude to build a custom one tailored to their needs. Why would they still need to subscribe?

What was the world going to look like a year from now? Do I need to go learn carpentry, painting, or woodwork? How would things evolve for us humans and how would we survive? It's now an internal "joke" between me and my friends.

Let's talk about all of this in next week's edition. I've got thoughts I'm sure you can't wait to read. See you then amigos 🤪