Building Infrastructure for Claude Code Productivity

Neil Kakkar spent his first six weeks at Tano not writing features but building the infrastructure that makes Claude Code productive - custom skills for automated PR creation, SWC migration cutting server restarts from a minute to under a second, worktree port management for running five parallel agents without collisions, and preview workflows for UI verification. The insight that the highest-leverage work is building developer infrastructure rather than letting agents write features directly cuts against the typical "look what I shipped in an hour" narrative. It's a more honest account of what actually makes AI coding tools useful day to day. The same pattern keeps surfacing from teams at Stripe, Ramp, and Coinbase - the real productivity gains come from investing in harness design, not from the agents themselves.