// Uses  ·  Tools of the Study

What the work runs on.

Tools are not the craft – but a craftsman knows his bench. The stack, the rituals, and the small choices behind the work.

Ghibli-style illustration of the desk – a central monitor with a watercolour landscape, a laptop on each side, a mechanical keyboard, headphones, and a bookshelf with a small forest spirit by the curtained window
// The bench – two machines, one monitor, and a small spirit keeping watch
Ghibli-style illustration of a sunlit living and dining room with a garden view, a green sofa, and a wooden dining table.
The room the desk lives in.
// Engineering, by day
// AI in the loop
Claude usage overview, all time: 240 sessions, 194,830 messages, 297.1 million tokens, 90 active days, longest streak 33 days, peak hour 10 PM, favourite model Opus 4.8, with a daily-activity heatmap. Claude token usage by day from late May to late August, split by model: Opus 4.8 45.2%, Sonnet 5 18.0%, Fable 5 17.1%, Opus 5 17.0%, Sonnet 4.6 2.6%.
// Claude, all-time  ·  240 sessions  ·  194,830 messages  ·  297.1M tokens  ·  90 active days  ·  Opus 4.8 still leads at 45%, with Opus 5 now sharing the load
// This site
// The desk