the tools I've been able to build so far have been both fun to make and add value to our workflow
john___matrix on Hacker News
In the thread “Claude Cookbook”, replying to this comment
Helped: Specifying products and understanding how they work.
Got in the way: Testing and QA phases exposed problems and shortcomings.
This is how I've gone about it with my Shopify site. I appreciate there may be more efficient ways to do things if you're an actual developer or engineer but I'm not and the tools I've been able to build so far have been both fun to make and add value to our workflow as a small 2 person ecommerce business. I do at least have a background in web as a designer for many years and having worked with developers I can at least spec and understand how a product might work which is one thing Claude/AI isn't hugely helpful with and often it's the testing and QA phase as always where the problems and shortcomings expose …