Week 2: Own and extend it

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Homework

Ship your second Pennywise feature

Add one feature with Claude Code (plan → build → debug), save your method as a /new-feature skill, write a PRD in Cowork, share before/after in WhatsApp, and publish on LinkedIn.

Open the full homework brief

Copy-paste prompts: Week 2 prompts sheet. Going deeper: Skills, Subagents, MCP, and Cowork setup.

What you keep

How to direct an AI coder to change a real product safely, how to read a codebase you did not write, and how to hand knowledge work to an AI collaborator.

You ship

A new feature in your product, none of it hand-written.

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Lessons

Live

From "I can't code" to "I direct code"

Plan, change, review the diff, keep or roll back, the safe loop for directing code you did not write.

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Live

Extend your app with Claude Code

Run the plan-change-review loop on your capstone and confirm Week 1 still works after the upgrade.

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Live

Automate your workflow with Cowork

Hand the work around your product to an AI collaborator, same briefing discipline, new surface.

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Live

Ship a new feature

Publish the Week 2 upgrade and test it live, version one plus a directed change.

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Deep dive

Lovable, Claude Code, or Cursor: when to use which

Start in Lovable, extend with Claude Code, reach for Cursor when you want to steer file by file.

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Deep dive

Reading a codebase without fear

Ask for a map, trace one feature end to end, and use read-only mode to explore safely.

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Deep dive

Claude Code stack: Skills, Subagents, and MCP

Setup, CLAUDE.md, Skills, Subagents, MCP, and Cowork. The repeatable layer beneath the plan-build-debug loop.

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Async

Week 2 homework: Ship your second Pennywise feature

Plan-build-debug loop, /new-feature skill, Cowork PRD, WhatsApp before/after, and a published LinkedIn post.

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Assignment

Ship a new feature with Claude Code

One feature live, a /new-feature skill you used, PRD in Cowork, and a published LinkedIn post.

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