Claude Code setup I built for a bike workshop's 20-year-old classic

What happened

A developer has shared details of a custom Claude Code implementation designed to manage and update a legacy web application. The project, documented on the marginalia blog, focuses on applying modern artificial intelligence tooling to a classic Active Server Pages system that has served a bicycle workshop for two decades. The project was shared on Hacker News under identification number 49527376, where it received one point and zero comments.

How it works

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Why it matters

How I built a Claude Code system that actually knows how I work Five months of Claude Code building its own tooling, steered by me, across a fleet of machines and a handful of separate codebases — a proper todo database, two-tier memory, and a session routine that runs itself. Most write-ups of AI coding assistants are about a clever prompt or a plugin you can install.

Who is affected

This one's about something slower, and I think more useful: having the assistant build its own tooling over months, in a git repo, tuned to exactly how you work. I've been running Claude Code across a real business for the past five months.

What to watch next

Each its own git repo, all run from the same machines: Proxmox hosts, Linux servers, a few laptops, a work desktop, and an Android phone running Claude Code in a terminal. See the full write-up from HN Claude/Codex/Fable via the source link for quotes and complete context.