Hello Full Stack PMs!
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A nice week across the board. The main addition is Claude Cowork – Anthropic's attempt to bring Claude Code powers to non-developers. I’m kind of a hater. We'll cover the shift from copilot to coworker, plus quickly cover a bunch of smaller launches that might be useful.
I also have a bunch of stuff to share. I've been busy.
Here's what we're covering:
My stuff - Live event, Vibe Coding 101 launch, podcast appearance
Claude Cowork - From copilot to coworker (it’s for the weak)
Sizzle Reel - Quick hits from around the AI building world
Let's do this.
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🍳 Fresh Off the Griddle
I've been DEEP in Claude Code stuff lately. Since it's my own most used tool, I'm treating it as the flagship and will catch up with Cursor and other tools soon.
🎤 Live Event!
I'm hosting my first ever live event with Product Faculty!
Sign up (free!): From Zero to Claude Code Pro in 90 Minutes (For PMs)
This will be unlike any live session you've done.
It's completely interactive, building off the "tool-in-tool" concept I'm pioneering with my courses. We'll go from initial setup through all the main commands, building prototypes, and setting up your own workspace. I'll be taking questions throughout.
It's going to be an epic 90 minutes.
🚀 Vibe Coding 101
This is the new Claude Code module – a complete guide to shipping a real app including GitHub and real deployment on Vercel!
If you haven't built anything yet, this is a really fun intro. Completely fool-proof. Takes 1-2 hours.
If you're already familiar with vibe coding, there won't be too much new stuff in here – except maybe seeing how Claude Code downloads and uses the GitHub and Vercel CLIs, which make deployment dead simple. Most people don't know about this.
And don't worry – more advanced stuff is brewing.
I have two versions:
→ Claude Code for PMs version
→ Claude Code for Everyone version
They're very similar. The For Everyone version explains some stuff – like what requirements are – in more detail.
🗳️ Vote for the next topic
Here was last week’s poll:
Vibe coding is done and next week I'm launching the "Connect Your AI to Everything" module – it's going to be awesome.
Your votes heavily influence my roadmap since I basically just want to build what you all want, so vote if you want a say!
What should I cover next?
🎙️ Podcast Appearance
After my Claude Code episode on Aakash Gupta's Product Growth Podcast, I returned to cover more advanced workflows. MCPs, connecting your AI to everything, a bunch of other pro moves. If you can’t wait for the new modules, I cover a lot of it here!
You can follow along with the video exactly using these companion files.
🤖 Claude Cowork – From Copilot to Coworker
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork on Sunday. The pitch: "Claude Code for the rest of your work."
It's built into the Claude Desktop app. You designate a folder where Claude can read and modify files directly from your computer, give it instructions through the chat, and it does stuff.
I'll be honest – I was kind of a hater at first. In fact, I said people should stop being babies. All the stuff Cowork can do has been possible in Claude Code for a year! And it's still not as powerful!
But I'm coming around to the fact that mayyybbeee you don't need full horsepower for every task. And not everyone loves being in the terminal all day as much as I do. (Just most of us, right?)
That said, I still strongly believe you're much better off just being brave and learning Claude Code. The capabilities are there. The flexibility is there. Cowork is training wheels – nice training wheels, but they’re coming at a high cost.
A few notes:
Availability: Max subscribers only ($100-200/mo), macOS desktop app only
Status: Still pretty buggy. I'll cover it eventually, but I want to wait until it's more generally available and has the kinks worked out.
Branding: I always thought they'd call it "Claude Agent." But Cowork is great for me – means I get more use out of my ccforeveryone and ccforpms domains 🙂
😂 Meme
In honor of the new vibe coding lesson:
🥓 Sizzle Reel
A bunch of other stuff happened this week. Here's the quick rundown. As a reminder – I only cover stuff relevant to building, not other AI news like OpenAI’s planned data centers on Mars or whatever.
Claude Code Tool Search — If you use MCPs, this is huge. Claude Code now lazy-loads tool definitions instead of cramming them all into context upfront. 85% token reduction. Basically, it searches for tools when it needs them instead of loading everything at startup.
GitHub Copilot SDK — Programmatic access to Copilot is now in technical preview. Language-specific SDKs for Node, Python, Go, .NET. They also shipped built-in agents: Explore, Plan, Code-review.
Windsurf — Gemini 3 Flash is now available for JetBrains users. 3x faster than previous generations, 78% on SWE-bench Verified. They also added a context window indicator in the UI so you can actually see how much context you're using.
Cursor Bugbot — Out of beta. Reviews your PRs automatically, finds logic bugs and edge cases. ~50% of flagged issues get resolved before merging. Basically an AI code reviewer that's actually useful.
GPT-5.2 reasoning effort levels — OpenAI added tunable thinking depth. You can now set low/medium/high/xhigh depending on how much you want the model to think before responding. xhigh can take 30+ minutes for complex problems.
v0 hits 3.5M users — v0 now has voice and camera inputs on mobile – snap a whiteboard, get a UI. Teams and Enterprise are over half their revenue now.
Replit Mobile Apps — You can now vibe code iOS apps with natural language and publish to the App Store. Integrated Stripe monetization. Idea to App Store in days, allegedly.
NotebookLM — Now generates slide decks and infographics from your sources. Upload your research, get a presentation. Google is turning this from a note-taking tool into a content creation engine.
☕️ Side Orders
Here are some other great reads and listens from this week:
Claude Code for Everything: How the Guy Who Built It Actually Uses It: Hannah Stulberg breaks down how Boris Cherny (the guy who built Claude Code) actually uses it in this great piece. The core insight: the workflow for coding is the workflow for everything else. Plan mode, oversight levels, parallel sessions – it all transfers.
Skills in the 21st Century: Aaron Levie on why skills matter more with AI, not less. The tools change constantly; the underlying judgment doesn't. One of the best things I’ve read this year.
🥞 The Last Pancake
If you just have 1 hour this week, do the new Vibe Coding 101 module!
Even if you haven't done the other modules, you can still do this one. It's standalone.
And here's a magic trick if you’re on a mac: run this in your terminal and you'll be launched directly into the lesson. (You have to already have Claude Code installed – here's the quick start guide if you don't.)
Keep building,
Carl 🥞