Claude Code as a full dev team: autonomous TDD cycle from feature request to merged PR

I manage dev teams for a living. Have been for about 8 years now, 21 years in IT total. Coordinating releases, reviewing architecture, making sure nothing blows up in production — the usual. Lately I've been burning out. Not from the hard stuff — from the stupid stuff. Pinging people for status updates. Reminding developers to review each other's code. Checking if CI is green because someone merged and went to lunch. Writing the same morning report again. I did the math once and about 60% of my week was just... operational babysitting. So when Claude Code showed up I thought ok, this is it, I'm going to build a tool that does all this crap for me. Not a toy project — a real thing. Multiple API integrations (Discord, Linear, GitHub, OpenAI), a database, cron jobs, timezone math, email reports that render screenshots through headless Chrome. About 15 separate features, each with enough edge cases to make you question your career choices. First week went great. Too great. "Everything work