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AI MAY 27, 2026

Leverage Record: May 27, 2026

Seven tasks. May 27, 2026 weighted to 43.6x leverage across 146.0 human-equivalent hours in 201 Claude-minutes. Supervisory leverage closed at 213.7x.

Seven tasks. May 27, 2026 weighted to 43.6x leverage across 146.0 human-equivalent hours in 201 Claude-minutes. Supervisory leverage closed at 213.7x.

3.6 weeks of human-equivalent throughput in 3.4 hours of Claude wall-clock. The 160.0x ceiling came from Phase 0 plus initial Phase 1 client parity catch-up; plan doc plus Android Profile/DomainSelect/Curriculum plus an interactive-activity interaction manifest across 4 repos.; the 7.2x floor sat at Freedom-to-operate patent search for a cognitive trace-inversion engine patent application..

About These Records
These time records capture personal project work done with Claude Code (Anthropic) only. They do not include work done with ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Grok (xAI), or other models, all of which I use extensively. Client work is also excluded, despite being primarily Claude Code. The actual total AI-assisted output for any given day is substantially higher than what appears here.

Task Log

#TaskHuman Est.ClaudeSup.FactorSup. Factor
1Phase 0 plus initial Phase 1 client parity catch-up; plan doc plus Android Profile/DomainSelect/Curriculum plus an interactive-activity interaction manifest across 4 repos.80.0h30m3m160.0x1600.0x
2Draft a patent application (trace-inversion engine): 20 claims plus 8 figures for a cognitive-operation trace-inversion engine plus cascading portfolio-doc updates.40.0h55m8m43.6x300.0x
3Consolidate a patent cluster taxonomy from 36 to 12 commercially distinct clusters: rewrite README cluster table plus patent-family grouping intro/IP strategy plus canonical cluster list plus canonical numbers plus FAQ/architecture-tier/valuation header notes plus CHANGELOG entry plus regenerate 4 affected PDFs.6.0h18m7m20.0x51.4x
4Cluster taxonomy cascade across the monorepo: rewrite cluster naming rationale for 12 clusters plus global search/replace for 24 dropped brand names across 6 repos (intellectual property documentation plus planning marketing plus architecture plus an adversarial evaluation harness plus 11 patent application pages plus a marketing-site press kit) plus config files plus manual fix of context-bleed mishaps in 5 files.8.0h28m8m17.1x60.0x
5Update marketing-site templates for the 12-cluster taxonomy: rewrite the clusters template (8 tier groups / 12 clusters with current descriptions) plus the architecture template (13-tier descriptions with multi-tier-spanning cluster callouts) plus the index template (home-page chip block 35 to 12) plus the portfolio template (Tier 9 patent count update plus drop cluster-per-tier subtext) plus publishable-name example refresh.4.0h15m5m16.0x48.0x
6Patent application follow-up: regenerate patent PDFs (application PDF plus figures PDF plus 9 public docs) plus update the patent traceability matrix plus commission and integrate an intellectual property freedom-to-operate search report (LOW risk verdict).5.0h30m5m10.0x60.0x
7Freedom-to-operate patent search for a cognitive trace-inversion engine patent application.3.0h25m5m7.2x36.0x

Aggregate Statistics

MetricValue
Total tasks7
Total human-equivalent hours146.0
Total Claude minutes201
Total supervisory minutes41
Total tokens1,012,500
Weighted average leverage factor43.6x
Weighted average supervisory leverage factor213.7x
Human-equivalent weeks3.6

Analysis

The day's leverage distribution matters more than the headline figure. The 160.0x ceiling came from Phase 0 plus initial Phase 1 client parity catch-up; plan doc plus Android Profile/DomainSelect/Curriculum plus an interactive-activity interaction manifest acr...; the 7.2x floor was Freedom-to-operate patent search for a cognitive trace-inversion engine patent application.. Tasks at the top of the distribution share a shape: tightly-scoped specifications, clear success criteria, and minimal integration ambiguity. The AI doesn't need to discover anything new; it executes against an explicit target.

Tasks at the bottom run differently. They're either bounded by review-heavy work where every step gets verified, or they involve ambiguity that demands several rounds of trial and adjustment. The factor is real and informative, not a failure mode.

The supervisory leverage figure (213.7x today) tracks something orthogonal to wall-clock leverage. It's the ratio of human-equivalent output to human prompt-writing time. It stays high even on lower-leverage days because supervisory minutes scale with task count, not with the human-hour estimate; a 20-minute task and a 4-hour task can both be specified in two minutes of human prompt-writing.

Across the 7 tasks, the day produced roughly 3.6 weeks of senior-engineer-equivalent throughput in 3.4 hours of model wall-clock. That ratio is the practical answer to the question of how much output a single operator can move per day when the model handles the execution and the operator handles the direction.