We’re a security startup where everyone wears five hats. This month, our product designer has become one of our most effective frontend contributors.

Last week, she fixed a responsiveness bug that had been bothering us since Christmas. It took her 10 minutes, and cost 76 cents.

She has no engineering background—no JS, no React. Just Claude, wired into her dev environment (iTerm2 + Docker), acting as a live-in copilot.

One prompt, one fix. It worked. And it shipped.

That’s not a fluke. She’s now added buttons, fixed spacing logic, tuned margins—stuff that would've gone into our backlog as Jira tickets. Things that typically get deprioritized because they’re small, but still matter.

Now they get fixed on the fly.