paddo.dev: One Year of Claude Code — Five Eras, Agent Teams Found in Binary Before Launch

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paddo.dev's anniversary retrospective traces five distinct Claude Code eras: Core Loop, Context Wars, Multi-Model Routing (Claude orchestrates, others execute subtasks), Controllability (hooks replaced prompt-based guardrails with deterministic triggers), and Agent Teams — which the author discovered in the binary before Anthropic officially released it. The central finding: the codebase was completely rewritten several times with no code surviving six months, yet the discipline — clean context, plan mode, CLAUDE.md precision — was the one constant. 80+ blog posts distilled into one framework.