The 12 tools I use to pilot Claude Code in production: kept, dropped, contested

The incident that frames the question Tuesday May 20, late afternoon. Niran lifts his head from his laptop and says, putting a can of soda on the desk: "Computer use, for pushing that mockup onto the site — wouldn't that be faster?" I answer without turning around: "Ten times the token cost of a normal session. To click three buttons." Silence. He reopens his editor. Françoise crosses the hallway calling out to nobody in particular: "Right, let's go" — she's talking about something else, but…