Built a shared library of reusable image styles for Olympus, the admin tool behind Frontlyne, that the apps can draw from, and spent most of the session cutting the plan down to what we actually needed.

The problem

There was no shared set of visual styles for the apps to reuse, so each was on its own. We wanted one catalogue everything could pull from. The first plan tried to do far more than that.

What I pushed back on

My main job turned out to be saying 'no, smaller'. I kept cutting the plan back to the one thing that mattered, and insisted that unfinished work stay hidden until it's deliberately published.

What Claude pushed back on

Claude caught a few things I'd have missed, including a warning, right after we shipped, that one button wouldn't work yet because a setting hadn't been switched on in the live system.

Learning

The most useful thing I did all session wasn't writing code. It was deciding what not to build. A good tool will build whatever you let it; the real skill is restraint.