The job decides what we make
A topic earns a course when the same job keeps landing on real desks and nothing that exists survives contact with it. That is the whole test. Not what is trending, and not what films well.
Which is why the list below is short, and why it grows slowly.
What has to be true
- Somebody is paid to do this job, and often enough that it is worth four hours.
- We have done it ourselves, on a deadline, with something riding on it.
- What you learn transfers to your own work, not just to our example.
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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.