The votes are in for Cohort 4.

Congrats to Yasmeen Khan, the winner of the portable monitor from my Foundations of Claude Code workshop.

Yasmeen is an Agile Project Manager with a keen interest in AI Ethics and Governance. She spent a day learning the foundations of Claude Code so she could better understand the ease with which businesses can apply various AI models to extract value, where models might go wrong ethically and how businesses can avoid statutory pitfalls. Last week she shipped a live website she built herself: yasmeenkhan.co

Custom domain, mobile responsive, contact form that sends an email notification to you.

Well done to Terence Kok, Swee Chye, chee shen, wai siong, Mona Cheah, Natalie Liew, and Veronica Loh for their entries too. A special mention to Wai Soon and Kah Meng, who both shipped sites as well but bowed out of the vote so the rest get a shot at the prize.

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I asked some alumni why they signed up for the workshop. Here are some reasons that surprised me.

Some had already built a website with Claude Chat or Cowork. They came anyway, because they wanted to learn the foundational knowledge of Claude Code. Building one site and understanding Claude Code foundations are two different things. This is why Wan Wei, “begged” me to start the workshop.

Some had been putting off learning this for months. They knew they could sit down and figure it out alone, for free. They signed up because they needed the push and the peer pressure to actually do it. It is like my wife paying for a gym package when she could exercise at home.

Some came because they wanted a website that actually ranks. An SEO-optimized site does not come out of the box from a vibe-coding platform, not unless you know what to prompt for.

Some had already gone through the Claude Code course on Anthropic Academy. They still came, because a course like that teaches you the features. My workshop teaches the mindset, the system, and the practical insights, the parts you mostly pick up from someone using this every day.

That last one is the thesis I keep coming back to. The features are public and free. What is hard to get is the judgment of how to use them, when to trust the agent, and when to step in. The expert stays in the loop. That part does not come from a feature list.

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If you are a business professional who wants to learn the foundation of Claude Code, check out my workshop below. It is designed for people who have never touched a Terminal or written code before.

Foundations of Claude Code: https://lnkd.in/e9r8kScw

And if you already have the foundations down and want to go further, I also run an advanced workshop on using Claude Code for personal automation.

Advanced Claude Code for Personal Automation: https://lnkd.in/eR6WPQnC

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