Education

After weeks of building my website with Claude Code, I asked it to evaluate whether I'd actually learned anything technical—and its assessment was surprisingly specific.

Building a website with Claude Code taught me five unexpected lessons about how the web actually works—not through tutorials, but through real debugging with immediate stakes.

Every morning, I need to fill out a slip telling my kindergartener's school what they'll eat for lunch. I thought: this is exactly the kind of thing an AI agent should handle. Spoiler: the agent got almost everything right, but 'almost' doesn't fill out lunch slips.

My second grader came home with a logic puzzle worksheet. After some frustration at the kitchen table, I realized there wasn't enough information to solve it. I decided to test whether AI could confirm my suspicion.

Last night's experiment started with homework frustration and ended with genuine delight, the kind where my seven-year-old actually asked to do more word practice. If you're a parent who's witnessed t...