Been spending a LOT of time with Claude Code for the last month and it’s been incredible. I’m at this beautiful place where everything feels possible and i’ve not yet been crushed by the harsh realities i’m guaranteed to be blind to. I’m creating a bunch of different stuff. A small app for pet owners, lyric generator and lately i’ve been trying to make websites for weaker students who need to strengthen their basic skills in school. More than that though, i’m enjoying creating the systems around the projects. I’m trying to build workflows that are self-improving and able to synthesize that’s beyond my ability - in line with my vision. One of the websites i’m trying to build for students is a english learning site that takes a student through a carefully designed curriculum and flow so that a student can start with 0 knowledge and glide through it in a way that feels great, intuitive and motivating. Duolingo doesn’t exist from my language to english, so i thought to try and make something in that lane. One example is an English learning site for Danish students, since Duolingo doesn’t really exist from my language to English. The idea would be a carefully sequenced, motivating flow where a weak student could start from almost zero and move through the basics in a way that feels intuitive. I’ve been using AI to generate research-based notes on things like curriculum sequencing, repetition, spacing, and the building blocks of English. And the idea is to pair that with my vision and feel for how it should feel. To be clear, i’m not expecting it to just work out like that. I’ve developed enough of a feel of it to feel how things don’t necesssarily work out the way you imagine it, just because you thought you covered it. But in theory it feels like it should be possible and that it becomes a matter of how clever you think it. I’m also trying to be careful to use not only claude code, but chatgpt and codex to help me think of guardrails, security and everything i might miss, think of questions i don’t know to ask and review the work. So far it’s been really exciting, so i’m curious to hear from all of you people that’s further ahead. Answer any you like:
- What should i learn to get good at this? Realistically i’m not gonna go on a full sprint to learn how to code and it also seems like while definitely useful, it’s not the best use of time.
- What kind of walls am i certain or very likely to hit, and what will it take to overcome them
- What kind of projects/workflows are the most promising right now?
- Where is the optimism actually justified?
- What are the traps? overengineering, fake progress, bad assumptions, weak research, maintenance, user testing, whatever that people in this phase usually don’t see yet?
- And finally just curious about your experiences, what you’re building and how you see it all submitted by /u/princeofnoobshire
Originally posted by u/princeofnoobshire on r/ClaudeCode