Congrats to Cohort 4 of my Foundations of Claude Code workshop, who wrapped on 18 June.

Wai Soon, wai siong, Hanah, Daniel Ling, chee shen, Mary Gagahina, Veronica Loh, Natalie, Terence Kok, Kah Meng, Yasmeen, Swee Chye

That is four cohorts now. And the thing that surprises many learners is who filled the room.

Almost none of them are software engineers. Most had never touched a Terminal a week before. Yet those sites went live within 5 hours, on their own custom domain, with a contact form wired to a backend that emails them whenever someone makes an enquiry, on their first try.

And this cohort ran on a smoother flow than the last. Three earlier cohorts had already stress-tested the flow, so this time we switched from Opus 4.8 to Sonnet 4.6 to conserve tokens on the Pro plan. Two people hit a stubborn persistence bug, so we granted Claude Code access to Chrome and let it troubleshoot with the browser. They still shipped.

When I first thought about running this, I didn’t expect the demand could be sustained. Claude Code carries a coding tool label, and I assumed that would be a hard sell to anyone non-technical.

I was wrong. And it turns out Anthropic was a little surprised too.

Inside Anthropic, it was not just engineers who reached for Claude Code. Marketing, data, even their legal team started using it directly to do their actual jobs. Building tools, mining data, drafting workflows. Not shipping production code.

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That matches what I see in every cohort. The people who get the most out of Claude Code are often not the ones who already code. They are the domain experts who finally have a way to build the thing in their head, without hiring a developer or waiting on one.

So the coding label is a little misleading. For most non-techies, the Terminal is a mindset block, not a skill gap. Four cohorts of non-engineers shipping live websites is the proof.

If you have been telling yourself this is not for you because you cannot code, that is probably the only thing standing between you and your first live site.

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If you are a business professional who wants to learn the foundations of Claude Code by building a website, I run a Foundations of Claude Code workshop. The next two cohorts are on 2 July (filling fast) and 16 July.

Details: https://lnkd.in/e9r8kScw

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