AI coding tools are evolving quickly - and the latest generation of “agentic” development tools are changing how developers interact with their codebases. In this edition of the Web News, Mike introduces Matt to Claude Code for the first time. While Matt already uses tools like ChatGPT to assist with coding, he hasn’t yet adopted the newer workflow where AI agents can plan, generate, and modify entire projects directly from the terminal. During the episode, Mike walks through a live demo of Claude Code by attempting to generate a brand-new website for the HTML All The Things podcast and blog. Along the way, they explore features like plan mode, discuss how agent-based tools approach software development, and examine how these tools compare to more familiar AI assistants. Throughout the demo, Matt reacts in real time - asking questions, challenging assumptions, and trying to understand how these modern AI development workflows actually fit into a real developer’s process. If you’ve been hearing about tools like Claude Code, Codex, or AI coding agents and wondering how they actually work in practice, this episode offers a firsthand look at the experience of using them live.
In this edition of the Web News Mike takes Matt on a tour of Claude Code for the first time. Matt uses ChatGPT and a few other AI tools to assist him with coding, but he has yet to adopt the sort of “most modern agentic workflow” way of coding that we find with Claude Code, Codex, and others. In this live demo, we’ll see Mike try and generate a new website for the HTML All The Things Podcast and blog, play around with plan mode, and more. All the while, Matt asks questions live as they come up having near-zero context for how Claude Code works.
