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# Phil | Rentier Digital Automation

@rentierdigital · Joined February 2026

Claude Code in production. What works, what breaks, what ships.

### [Your SaaS Is One Week and $1,100 Away From Being Cloned. Cloudflare Just Proved It.](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/ai-cloned-nextjs-saas-protection?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A comment on a recent Hacker News thread about chardet relicensing made me close my MacBook for two minutes. Roritharr, a SaaS consultant, was telling the story of one of his client's engineers who had reverse-engineered the backend in a week with Cl...

11 min read · [rentierdigital.hashnode.dev](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/ai-cloned-nextjs-saas-protection?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[May 10](https://hashnode.com/posts/ai-cloned-nextjs-saas-protection/6a008afa390a6f87eae398c4)

### [Add a CLI to Your App or Watch Claude Code Ping You on Every Feature](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/cli-first-ai-agent-development?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

CLI is the new MCP. Slogan aside: CLI is super powers handed to Claude, Codex, and every agent that codes for you. Letting coding LLMs verify their own work programmatically gives them an unfair advantage over classic fullstack apps that didn’t ship ...

17 min read · [rentierdigital.hashnode.dev](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/cli-first-ai-agent-development?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[May 7](https://hashnode.com/posts/cli-first-ai-agent-development/69fc9677a73482780f8f4b4e)

### [He Pays Claude $40K/Month to Replace His Team. Half His Day Is Spent Debugging It.](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/claude-ai-agent-debugging-reality?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

The morning ritual of the vibe-business-coder. You open your macbook and you don't ask what your agents produced overnight 🤓 You ask what they broke. You walk the floor. Logs, drifts, hotfixes. You're not running an autonomous company, you're pullin...

10 min read · [rentierdigital.hashnode.dev](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/claude-ai-agent-debugging-reality?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[May 6](https://hashnode.com/posts/claude-ai-agent-debugging-reality/69fb44f899e457d536925279)

### [Claude Code Was Broken for 6 Weeks. AMD Caught It in 6,852 Sessions Before Anthropic Did.](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/claude-code-bug-amd-audit-anthropic?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

For six weeks, you thought you were writing your prompts wrong. You could feel Claude Code messing up. Refactors going sideways, files edited without being read, thinking cut mid-sentence. You re-read your CLAUDE.md, tweaked your instructions, blamed...

9 min read · [rentierdigital.hashnode.dev](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/claude-code-bug-amd-audit-anthropic?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[May 5](https://hashnode.com/posts/claude-code-bug-amd-audit-anthropic/69f9f377b6281a22de4edf58)

### [94% of My Claude Code Tokens Went to the Wrong Model. So I Stopped Paying Opus to Do Haiku's Job.](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/claude-code-token-optimization-costs?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

You feel like you have done everything right with Claude Code. Hooks installed. CLAUDE.md curated to 6,890 tokens. Every MCP server killed off, with the kind of discipline you are silently proud of on a Friday evening. Then it is Wednesday, three day...

13 min read · [rentierdigital.hashnode.dev](https://rentierdigital.hashnode.dev/claude-code-token-optimization-costs?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[May 4](https://hashnode.com/posts/claude-code-token-optimization-costs/69f8a1f7e05f071364897501)
