[Verse 1] Last spring we still drew boxes Argued where the button ought to go Moved it left and made it smaller Then moved it back before the show Now the designer asks for options “Warm and clean, but still alive” A minute later, there they are And we pretend it took all night [Verse 2] The developer had a problem With a function no one understood He asked Claude to make it simpler Claude said that it probably could It changed the types, rewrote the tests And left some notes about the trade-offs We read the diff and clicked approve Then went to lunch a little lost [Pre-Chorus] By Monday it was just a tool By Friday it was half the room [Chorus — rough, raspy] Claude is in the stand-up Claude is in the code Claude is drawing all the screens And writing all the notes We barely touch the work these days But somehow ship it out Everything is getting easier Why am I so tired now? [Verse 3] Product prompted out the roadmap Design prompted product back Engineering asked for architecture Then asked it to check the facts The ticket wrote the feature The feature wrote its own review At five we said, “Good progress” No one knew what else to do [Refrain — restrained] Claude is in the stand-up He never says he’s blocked He never needs another coffee He never watches any clocks [Verse 4] Now I wake up giving orders Before my feet are on the floor “Make it clearer, make it human Give me three directions more” “Keep the tone a little warmer Lose the jargon, keep it brief” I can manufacture anything Except a sense of ownership [Pre-Chorus — building] By Monday it was helping out By Friday we were helping it [Chorus — louder] Claude is in the stand-up Claude is in the code Claude is drawing all the screens And writing all the notes We barely touch the work these days But somehow ship it out Everything is getting easier Why am I so tired now? [Bridge — half-time, exposed vocal] I miss the stupid little failures The coffee cooling by the screen The bug that kept us there till midnight And the joke that only four of us could mean I don’t miss the stress exactly I don’t want the old days back I just thought I’d feel more useful When the future finally came [Instrumental Build] [Final Chorus — full distortion] Claude is in the stand-up Claude is in my head I’m thinking now in instructions Before I’m out of bed Make it cleaner, make it faster Make it something we can sell We’re shipping twice as much these days And nobody can really tell Who designed it, who decided Who was steering anyhow Everything is getting easier Why am I so tired now? [Outro — stripped back] We used to make the product Now we tell it what we meant We used to lose ourselves in details Now we optimize the sprint And maybe this is better Maybe this is how it goes Claude is in the stand-up But he never turns his camera on Claude is in the stand-up But he never turns his camera on
