Congrats to Cohort 3 of my Foundations of Claude Code for "surviving" the workshop.

After 3 rounds of iteration, the workshop runs much smoother now. But this cohort still threw up a few surprises.

1. It filled up within 4 days of opening.

I did not expect this kind of demand when I first started running the workshop. A Claude Code workshop carries a coding label, and I assumed that would be a hard sell to non-techies. I was wrong.

2. Two learners flew in from overseas just to attend.

Justin flew in from the Philippines and Caleb from Vietnam. Welcome to Singapore and enjoy your stay.

3. Three learners pushed a real website live within 5 hours, with zero prior Claude Code or Terminal experience.

On their own custom domain. Not a localhost demo, but a live site with a working contact form through Resend and bot protection through Cloudflare Turnstile. Most non-techies are told the Terminal is not for beginners. They did it in one afternoon, on their first try.

4. A few learners burnt through their entire token limit in 15 minutes.

One prompt into the workshop. Claude Code had shipped a new dynamic workflow feature that launched 100+ agents just to research AI patterns to avoid in 2025 and 2026. We turned it off on the spot, so the room could keep moving. This is the messy reality of teaching on a tool that updates every week.

5. Most got their site running on localhost.

Not everyone reached a live custom domain in the time we had, and that is fine. But most got to localhost within 5 hours. Everyone walked out with a stronger foundation, no matter where they started. And I will make sure everyone can get their website live through the workshop support group chat. Alumni are also invited to join future cohorts for free if they need more help.

We are now at 40+ alumni. Most of them are not software engineers. They are consultants, coaches, educators, even a voice actor. Domain experts who can now ship.

Check out the live websites past cohorts built:

https://lnkd.in/g2xPkm3t

Non-techies are told the Terminal is only for developers. It is not. Terminal is not difficult. It is a mindset block. And that block is the only thing standing between most people and their first live website.

Peiyi Nguee, Leslie, Francis, Caleb, Justin, Way Shen, PS CHEONG, Angela, Shang, Xue Xun, Winston, James Xi, Monica, Daniel Tan, Cheng Har, • Allan, Lynn

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If you are interested in learning the Foundations of Claude Code, the next two cohorts are on 18 June (2 slots left) and 2 July.

Details: https://lnkd.in/e9r8kScw

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