CLD #00 App Building with Claude
Been spending time building with Claude Code, and it has been genuinely enjoyable.
What began as a small exercise turned into iterating on a recipe manager. Less focused on UI polish and more focused on testing structure, data flow, and technical capabilities. I was really getting into what I wanted this app to be doing.
MVP can be validated in a few hours. (I can imagine even in minutes with experience.) What takes longer is determining how the product functions and what values it is built around.
Fast iteration removes the buffer between decisions and consequences. When you can build quickly, decisions about how something works surface much earlier in the process.
This approach is not new. Strong product and design teams have always operated this way. What has changed is the speed and cost of development. AI has reduced the barrier to building and testing ideas, making autonomy-driven product teams accessible to more than just a select few top-tier companies.
Research shows that when product teams are empowered with autonomy and aligned with strategy, they achieve better outcomes faster. This principle has been established for a long time, but AI is transforming how widely and affordably it can be implemented.
ICs can prototype and test ideas directly. Leadership focuses on providing clarity, coherence, and the systems that guide decision-making. I believe design is evolving into governance in addition to execution.
This is the type of product and design work I am interested in. Building and testing systems, with interface decisions grounded in that structure.
Originally published on LinkedIn
