Creating with Claude

I've always been the person friends and family call when something doesn't make sense. For years that meant technology — the printer, the password, the thing that just broke. Lately it's been AI. My uncle Gary, who's spent his career in commercial real estate, started asking how he could use it to evaluate contracts and deals. My son — who loves to write code and wanted nothing to do with AI doing it for him — came around and started asking how it could help with the problems that had him stuck. A fellow writer wanted to know how I was using it to pick up my pace. And I keep finding myself in awe of the things my friend Chuck is building. About three months into my own journey, I realized I had something worth sharing: not just what I'd learned, but how I learned it.

I'm a storyteller. It's how I've always taught and explained things, and this book is no exception. But as I mapped it out, I knew it wasn't for someone like me — the guy who jumps in with both feet and figures it out by breaking things. I wrote it for people like my uncle. The ones who are already the best at what they do and simply want AI to help them do more.

That's the method, and it works. You learn by doing, page by page, starting from the very first chapter. The early readers told me I hit the mark. What means the most is when people who use AI every single day come back and say, "I never thought of that," or "I love how you explained this." That's the promise I made to you as a reader, and it's the one I most wanted to keep.

If any of this sounds like you, pull up a chair. Let's build something.

— Chris