Developer built an AI work-session tracker with Claude's help
A developer starting a new data engineering job at a fintech company felt after three unproductive years at a dysfunctional workplace had let their skills slip. The new company gave nearly every engineer a seat.
To cope, the developer started with a simple text file giving structure and direction; it got messy fast but work still got delivered, earning praise from the lead engineer and the PM. After realizing they were consuming a large share of the department's AI usage budget, they removed any confidential data from the crude file and designed a proper system to manage context more effectively.
The result is an work harness that records every coding session with Copilot and keeps a local for audit purposes. They also shared an architecture diagram that Claude helped create.
Key points
- New job gave the whole engineering team access
- Started with a plain text file to direct
- Evolved into an open-source tool logging sessions plus a local git audit trail
- Claude helped generate the architecture diagram for the project