My Foray Into AI Coding

Since this past April, I've been experimenting with Claude Code. Shockingly, what started as a small, personal app testing the capabilities of AI turned into a fully functional app I dubbed "Nexus". I published it, and you can check it out here. This essay is a snapshot in time — documenting my experience. I've been impressed and humbled at the frontier model capabilities. It's shocking what's currently possible, and I (like everyone else) am struggling with the implications. If they're not already, I suspect these sorts of stories to be commonplace in the next few years. I actually started writing an earlier version of this essay about two months ago. Normally, I write when I feel motivated — slowly and deliberately, and when I get to something that feels like a complete thought, I publish. But since I started writing: Anthropic developed a new class of model too dangerous to release to the public — and launched a corresponding initiative to try to prepare cyber defenders. That model…