The demo is the easy part
Every AI demo works. Then you point the same tool at the repository you actually maintain, or the folder that has to be a report by Thursday, and it stops working. The gap between those two things is what we teach.
How we work
- Every lesson is built on a job somebody actually has to finish.
- Every step is on screen as it ran, not summarised afterwards.
- Everything is worked against real constraints, not a clean room.
What we are for
We work the other way round
Most of it is filmed on a problem chosen to make the tool look good. Nothing is ambiguous, no constraint gets in the way, and it works first time. Your work is not like that.
So we take a job somebody really has and do it with the tool in front of us. When it goes wrong you see that too, because handling it is most of the skill and nobody films that part.
What is left is something you can run on your own work. It is a way of working rather than a tour of the settings, and it still holds the week the tool starts behaving differently.
The job changes from one course to the next. It might be a plugin nobody on your team wrote, or a folder of documents that has to be one table by Thursday, or something built from nothing against a deadline. The tools are different every time. The method is not.
What we make
Everything we have made, and who each one is for
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Video course
Claude Code on Real Codebases
See what is inside: Claude Code on Real CodebasesFour hours spent inside one real WordPress ecommerce plugin of roughly 240,000 lines: onboarding an agent to code you did not write, working an open issue end to end, and meeting the five ways it fails on a codebase that size.
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Kindle book
Claude Cowork for Non-Programmers
See what is inside: Claude Cowork for Non-ProgrammersHanding a job to Claude turns out to be a writing problem. The book teaches one brief shape that covers it, then hands over 25 briefs already written for the document and spreadsheet work that eats a week.
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