First Principles
NOLITE TE BASTARDES CARBORUNDORUM If you've been following along with my LinkedIn feed, you may have spotted that I've started using Claude Code to clone a site for an a rt gallery in Chicago. If you haven't been following along, well, I've started using Claude Code to clone a site for an art gallery in Chicago. Previously, I'd already started cloning the site by (AI code-complete) hand. The site is currently built from Square's website builder offering, while the new version uses my preferred stack (Astro, TailwindCSS, AlpineJS, and Cloudflare Workers). In my hand-coded iteration, I'd made it as far as fetching items from Square's inventory system and creating the index page. That work took me about 10 hours. In the Claude Code iteration, I'm requiring it to use my preferred stack, and it performed the work in about the same time. That is to say, between creating the appropriate Claude.md file, which sets a framework for its usage...
