The real question isn’t whether you’ll make mistakes; it’s what you do after.
The most important parenting skill isn’t being perfect — it’s repair. Acknowledging what happened, taking responsibility, and reconnecting.
When you own your mistakes completely and specifically, something unexpected happens: your team trusts you more, not less.
When you know you can fix things when they go wrong, you’re more willing to make decisions, have difficult conversations, and take reasonable risks. You stop being paralyzed by perfectionism because you know that most mistakes, while serious, create opportunities for growth and stronger relationships when handled well.
Your job isn’t to be perfect. Your job is to ship working software that adds real value to users, to help your team grow, and to create an environment where people can do their best work.
run Claude Code headlessly in a loop forever and see what happens. Turns out, what happens is: you wake up to 1,000+ commits, six ported codebases, and a wonky little tool.
while :; do cat prompt.md | claude -p --dangerously-skip-permissions; done
We spent a little less than $800 on inference for the project. Overall the agents made ~1100 commits across all software projects. Each Sonnet agent costs about $10.50/hour to run overnight.