LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: Claude Code always produces something. That’s the hard part.

The useful part

A growing amount of the functionality behind LernerPython.com is now written with Claude Code: the events system, the membership plumbing, and the scheduled jobs that keep the site's session listings current. Even my course-setup software, which I use several times each week when teaching live sessions, was written with Claude Code. Claude Code always produces something Long ago, someone told me, "Computers don't do what you want them to do.

How it works

• They do what you tell them to do." This was always the case when programming.
• With Claude Code, or any agentic coding system, the implications are much bigger.
• There are gaps between what you wanted to happen, what you specified, and what AI then actually implemented.
• Just today, Claude told me that gee, it really should have implemented a feature that I had asked for earlier today, and it's so sorry that it forgot.

Details worth keeping

For many months, I've been using Claude Code several hours each day. I write less code by hand than I did a year ago, and I ship more of it. Generally speaking, agents will do what you...