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I started programming when I was in high school and helped pay my way through MIT by writing Fortran code in a research lab. I got a job writing software for a naval architecture firm right out of college, and then helped pay my way through grad school by doing some freelance coding gigs. When I got into VC in the mid 80s, I stopped writing code. Other than some UI/UX tweaking here and there, I have not written much code in almost forty years.
Like so many of us, the arrival of AI-assisted coding tools has made me a coder again. It's not really writing code, though. It's building stuff with code that is written by AI.
It's fun.
Over the weekend, I made two apps, both of which leverage my interest in music.
I used Claude Code, working in the Terminal app on my Mac, to build this web app that pulls all the music I have recently liked on SoundCloud and makes it available to listen on the web.
I started programming when I was in high school and helped pay my way through MIT by writing Fortran code in a research lab. I got a job writing software for a naval architecture firm right out of college, and then helped pay my way through grad school by doing some freelance coding gigs. When I got into VC in the mid 80s, I stopped writing code. Other than some UI/UX tweaking here and there, I have not written much code in almost forty years.
Like so many of us, the arrival of AI-assisted coding tools has made me a coder again. It's not really writing code, though. It's building stuff with code that is written by AI.
It's fun.
Over the weekend, I made two apps, both of which leverage my interest in music.
I used Claude Code, working in the Terminal app on my Mac, to build this web app that pulls all the music I have recently liked on SoundCloud and makes it available to listen on the web.
I also used our portfolio company Neynar's Studio app to build and deploy a mini-app in the Farcaster and Base mobile apps. My mini app is called Music Casts, and it pulls all of the music links from the people I follow on Farcaster and Base and puts them into a mini app that allows you to listen to them. It looks like this in Farcaster:
It is nice to make miniapps in Neynar Studio because Farcaster and Base offer the deployment surface and user base to give feedback. When I casted about Music Casts, I got a ton of suggestions, and I have added some of them already.
Coding in Claude Code in the Terminal app is more powerful, particularly when paired with a deployment tool. I used a deployment tool called Railway to get my web app live.
If you've always wanted to build software applications but have been held back by a lack of programming skills and/or time to learn, your time has come!
If you want to get started on Claude Code in the Terminal app,here are the instructions to get going.
If you want to build in Neynar Studio, go here.
I also used our portfolio company Neynar's Studio app to build and deploy a mini-app in the Farcaster and Base mobile apps. My mini app is called Music Casts, and it pulls all of the music links from the people I follow on Farcaster and Base and puts them into a mini app that allows you to listen to them. It looks like this in Farcaster:
It is nice to make miniapps in Neynar Studio because Farcaster and Base offer the deployment surface and user base to give feedback. When I casted about Music Casts, I got a ton of suggestions, and I have added some of them already.
Coding in Claude Code in the Terminal app is more powerful, particularly when paired with a deployment tool. I used a deployment tool called Railway to get my web app live.
If you've always wanted to build software applications but have been held back by a lack of programming skills and/or time to learn, your time has come!
If you want to get started on Claude Code in the Terminal app,here are the instructions to get going.
If you want to build in Neynar Studio, go here.
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Hi Casters. I wrote a blog post comparing coding in Farcaster with Neynar Studio and coding in Claude Code with the Terminal app https://avc.xyz/im-coding-again
😄 Love this! and just FYI: if you follow me, my songs will show up in your mini app 🎶👀
done
😊 That just made my day — feeling very special right now. Thanks for the follow! 🎶✨
Was literally working in the App Studio 10 mins ago, haha
@rish Do you know when GitHub export will be available?
we plan to do it soon but dont have an exact date for you yet we just added code visibility on neynar.com/studio so github is the next logical step
I enjoy coding on Claude overall