I have a love affair with Claude Code. In fact, it made this whole site, from scratch, in a few minutes.
I told it what I wanted in a couple of sentences and gave it a few examples of sites I liked. A few minutes later I had a pretty good working site on a local server. After a bit of iteration I had something I really liked. It was so very much mine, and so fun to make. Claude was happy to push pixels around the screen to my heart’s desire:
Left align the title with the search box and make it look like rainbow sprinkes (got that on the first try btw).
Make the tags pop.
Make the background bluer.
Give me a vertical line. Thinner… thinner… fade it out a bit. Perfect.
I spent an hour trying things just because I could. No annoyed developer. No hourly rate.
So now I have this piece of custom software that looks and acts just how I want it, and I can keep making changes to it without having to crawl thru code or customer support forums. I’m a painter with a keyboard and a 4k monitor.
Magic Leaps
ChatGPT was a moment. And as it got progressively more capable it was amazing to see, but it felt well, progressive. Like watching the second Jurassic Park. The dinosaurs already came back to life. Can’t do that again. But the first time I tried ChatGPT. Magic.
I haven’t had that feeling again until a few days ago. When I finally tried Claude Code and realized that I could just tell it what I wanted in words and it would make those words come to life. Not just blogs and static sites, but web apps with complex custom logic.
Magic.
And if that’s not exciting enough, remember what the folks at Anthropic like to say:
Jack: Yes, something we say often to policymakers at Anthropic is “This is the worst it will ever be!” and it’s really hard to convey to them just how important that ends up being.
Update: love this so much I’ve decided to rename Vibe Coding to “Clauding!”