I’ve spent the last week planning and implementing a migration to Anthropics Claude Code CLI – this was a result of some increasing friction points operating with Kiro. I love Kiro, it was an amazing first experience with spec driven AI assisted development but as an indie game dev its rigidly enforced methodology made it hard to pivot and react to real human feedback. I found myself in a position of having to constantly reality check it, and it definitely delivered vapor ware as the project increased in complexity. Hopefully Claude will be more agile and remain more neutral while discussing feedback. That would have sounded like a crazy statement a year ago. How could AI temperament be a workflow issue, but anyone who’s experienced an argument with AI will understand immediately. Speaking of personalities is AI, Gemini who (which?) has been a great deep research agent and is the current narrator for Reavers, faked me out so bad the other day that I thought I was going to lose my mind. It kept insisting this batch processing GIMP 3 plugin I was developing was fully implemented and compatible and directing me to a menu in the toolbox. I’m super impressed with GIMP 3, but unfamiliar with its UX, and I started uploading screenshots trying to find this down arrow Gemini was describing. I asked it to put a red box around the arrow and show me and it was like ok one sec…Image failure … “I’m sorry I have failed to generate an image.” “But it’s right there in the Toolbox Menu.” What the hell! There is no frickin arrow I realize after an hour of this. I’ve gone completely mad! I’m deep deep deep in it. On the positive side, I’m almost done with integrating the CLI into a plan -> open Claude with memory context and vertex indexed code database search agents, implement -> test in Claude -> review in VS Code -> commit workflow for game features. This should accelerate all aspects of development. Any dev who installs the reavers-studio extension will have access to the assisted design data and feature planning and AI assisted best in class implementation that has prebuilt personalized context and memory and the ability to rapidly research the code base itself. When did ‘What’s my Name?” become the new “Hello World”.