I got tired of logging in and out of Claude Code, so I built a one-command account switcher

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Quick confession: last week I logged out of my work Claude Code account four times in one afternoon. Nothing was broken. I just have a second account for personal projects, and Claude Code can only be logged into one of them at a time. Sign in with the personal account and the work one is gone. Sign back in with work and personal is gone.

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