I Let Claude Code Create a Blogging Platform for Me. You Won't Believe What Happened!

Yes, it’s a clickbait title, but seriously, the results turned out to be pretty incredible.

I chose to lay out the $200 for a year of Anthropic’s Pro plan a couple of weeks ago with the intention of seeing how far I can push Claude Code for a couple of different projects.

Yesterday evening, I had the brilliant idea and said to myself “Hey self, why not work with Claude to write yourself a new blogging platform?” So, after writing a really thorough prompt of my initial requirements, I let Claude create a plan. The results were well presented.

I literally started 24 hours ago…

Within one day, I have a working CMS system running on a Hetzner VPS that does nearly everything I want it to. If I had developed it from scratch without AI’s help, it would have taken months to get through it.

I tried the same experiment a little over a year ago, and the results didn’t even come close. It’s incredible just how far LLMs have come in a year.

This is the first new post on my new blogging platform, php-mini-cms. I’ll be sharing more details about it soon. In the meantime, check out the project’s README to learn more about it.

Why did I do this? Because I could, but mostly I wanted to wrap my head around Claude and IA as a whole. The more I work with it, the more there is to learn. It’s time to embrace AI in our daily lives. The more you fight against it, the further behind you’re going to end up.

More to come soon.