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 decided to lay out the $200 for a year of Anthropic’s Pro plan a couple of weeks ago with the intention of seeing just how far I can push Claude Code and see what it could do.

Yesterday evening, I thought to myself “Hey self, why not try to write your own blogging platform with Claude?” So, after writing a pretty thorough prompt of my initial requirements, I let Claude create a plan for me.

I literally started this 24 hours ago.

Within one day, I have a working CMS system running on a Hetzner VPS that does everything I want it to do. If I had developed this from scratch without AI’s help, it might’ve taken a month or more to get through it.

I tried the same experiment a little over a year ago, and it 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 about it.

Why? Because I could. But mostly so I can get my head wrapped around Claude as a tool. The more I work with it, the more there is to learn.

More to come soon.