Welcome to my blog. I've decided to document my journey going through Fractal School.
Why AI and Why Now?
AI has just started to become useful for building with code. With that has come the question of whether the software industry will still be around.
I think it will. Building software still requires understanding what software is capable of and its limitations. Since AI is still in its early stages, it still requires a certain amount of hand-holding and guiding—which is where software engineers come in.
Instead of talking to computers directly to get meaningful outputs, software engineers can now talk to AI to get meaningful output. The skill shifts from syntax to communication.
A Different Approach to Learning
Most of the learning we do is through school, which in some sense can be for our own knowledge but inevitably means sitting through lectures that aren't interesting or appealing to us. This leads to thinking that learning is a necessary evil—something we have to do for others rather than ourselves.
Rarely do we have the opportunity to learn things that we are actually interested in or given creative freedom to do so.
At Fractal School, it's different. So much so that they feel the need to separate themselves from the traditional school system, calling themselves "Fractal Bootcamp" and explicitly stating they do not operate in the same way as traditional education.
Using Claude as a Pair Programmer
Creating this blog using Claude has been a breeze. It's been incredibly easy to use, especially compared to the last time I tried it a few months ago. I've been continually surprised by how much Claude has improved and how much it can do.
I created this entire blog with a few prompts in a single session. This has piqued my curiosity about how I can make Claude even more useful—whether by providing it more context, building custom tools, or exploring its full capabilities.
That's what I'll be exploring next.