Articles tagged "Claude"

This article is in two parts. The first is speculative, and considers whether software development is evolving from generic to bespoke. By this is meant a leap from software designed and developed by organizations, and targeted to the broadest base of users, to software designed and developed by individuals for their specific and evolving needs. The second section steps through a case study of a personal CRM system developed by the author using Claude Code. This section reviews successes and failures, and gives a realistic perspective on how close we are to the hypothesized goal of personal software.

Post 3 gives a sense of what could be accomplished by real estate analysts, consultants, brokers, investors–you name it–with these new and radically different tools.

Post 2 is for those who have had experience with programming, and who have either used or would like to use an integrated development environment (IDE) with Claude. As in the first post, this one provides the minimum set of skills and steps necessary to get up and running, and like the first the goal is to get far enough to be able to work together with Claude to learn and experiment. It’s a little more challenging.

Post 1 is for people with little or no programming experience who want to get to work with Claude Code; the path to that lies through the Unix Terminal. The goal of this first article is to show that this path quickly gets one to interacting with Claude Code, which can then provide a path to scripting, skills, projects, and even application development.

There are four posts in this series. This one (Post 0) is an index to help you decide where to start. The next (Post 1) is for people with little or no programming experience who want to get to work with Claude Code; the path to that lies through the Unix Terminal. The goal of the first article is to show that this path quickly gets one to interacting with Claude Code, which can then provide a path to scripting, skills, projects, and even application development.

The third post (Post 2) is for those who have had experience with programming, and who have either used or would like to use an integrated development environment (IDE) with Claude. As in the first post, this one provides the minimum set of skills and steps necessary to get up and running, and like the first the goal is to get far enough to be able to work together with Claude to learn and experiment. It’s a little more challenging.

The final post in the series (Post 3) gives a sense of what could be accomplished by real estate analysts, consultants, brokers, investors–you name it–with these new and radically different tools.

The ether is full of descriptions of agentic AI and its overwhelming promise for wrangling data, automating workflows, and generally changing the world. Here is where I started.