It’s 3 AM and Ivan hasn’t eaten since lunch. There’s a glass of water on his desk that he poured six hours ago. It’s still full.
He’s hunched over his laptop, typing furiously, eyes bloodshot. On the screen: a terminal window, a Claude chat, and a growing sprawl of Python scripts. He’s building an email automation system. Not because anyone asked him to. Because he realized he could.
It started two days ago. Ivan was complaining to Claude about how many emails he gets—hundreds a day, most of them requiring some response. Claude suggested they could automate the simple ones. A script to parse incoming messages, classify them by type, draft appropriate replies. Ivan could review and approve them in batches.
