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Claude Code, as I actually use it.
Claude Code in Practice: ten short video lessons, about ten minutes each, on how I run a consulting practice and this school with Claude Code. Not the features; the working habits.
Not open yet. Pre-order now and the link to your lessons arrives on 15 December 2026.
Pre-order
$49
$79 from 15 December 2026
The problem
The question I am asked most about Claude Code is not how to install it or what to type. It is: what does your setup actually look like?
It is a fair question. The tool is the easy part; the difference is in what surrounds it: the instructions it starts from, the notes it leaves behind, the checks that catch it and the list of things it may never do without asking.
So here is mine, a lesson at a time, on real work.
Ten lessons, about ten minutes each.
Every one is a practice this business runs on today.
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The instruction file
What goes in it, what stays out and the rules the agent may never break. Mine, read line by line.
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Memory that outlives the chat
Session notes and a running log, so Monday's session starts where Friday's stopped; and how one client's notes are kept away from another's.
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A task list the agent keeps
Work the agent files, claims and closes for itself, so nothing found mid-task is lost and what is open can be seen at a glance.
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A brief before the build
Turning a vague wish into something an agent can't misread: the review, the decisions that are yours and the plan in ordered steps.
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Guardrails as code
Tests, build checks and deploy gates that stop a mistake reaching a customer; why every rule worth keeping ends up as a check that fails loudly.
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Alone, or ask first
Permissions, approvals and secrets: where the agent runs unattended, where it stops for a yes and how keys stay out of the conversation.
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Many hands
Several agents at once: when splitting a job pays for itself, when it wastes money and how to brief a helper.
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Words as code
Emails, sales pages and policies kept as plain files, reviewed like code and published by script, with the house style held by tests.
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Out of the editor
The agent at work in the browser, the dashboards and the command line; and the line it does not cross, such as typing a password.
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A real job, start to finish
One piece of work from a question to something shipped: the evidence, the decision, the build, the check in a real browser and the note of what happened.
What a pre-order includes
- Ten video lessons, about ten minutes each, when the course opens on 15 December 2026
- The files shown in the lessons, to copy and adapt
- Yours to keep: watch as often as you like
- The pre-order price: $49 instead of $79
- Full refund on request at any time before it opens, and for 30 days after.
Is it for you?
Enrol if
- You use Claude Code already, or have read the book, and want to see a whole working setup, not one feature at a time
- You run your own work: a consultant, analyst, engineer, researcher or founder
- You want habits you can copy this week, shown on real projects
Look elsewhere if
- You want to start today: the course opens on 15 December 2026
- You want a person on camera or live sessions: these are narrated screen lessons
- You have never used Claude Code: start with the free book, Claude Code for the Rest of Us
- You are a professional developer looking for advanced software engineering
The author
The small print, enlarged
When does the course open?
On 15 December 2026. The link to your lessons is emailed that day to the address you pre-order with.
How long is it?
Ten lessons of about ten minutes each. You can watch it in an afternoon, or one lesson a day.
Is it you on camera?
No, and I would rather say so than have you find out. The lessons are narrated screen walkthroughs and diagrams. They are scripted from my real working setup, assembled by a coding agent and read by a synthetic voice, and I check every lesson before it goes out. It is how I make most things now, and the course shows how.
Why pre-order a course that is not finished?
For the price. On pre-order it is $49; from 15 December 2026 it is $79.
What if I change my mind, or the course is late?
Reply to your confirmation email at any time before the course opens and I will refund you in full. If it does not open on 15 December 2026, anyone who asks is refunded at once. Once it is open you have a further 30 days on the same terms.
Do I need to have read the book?
No. If you have never used Claude Code, though, read Claude Code for the Rest of Us first; it is free on this site and gets you set up, which this course assumes.
Do I need to be able to code?
No. You need to be comfortable in a terminal and clear about what you want built; the course is about directing an agent, not writing the code yourself.
Will it go out of date?
Parts of it will. It is a picture of how I work at the end of 2026, and the tools move quickly. The habits (write the rules down, keep the notes, turn every lesson learned into a check) are the part that lasts.
Can my employer pay?
Yes. Stripe emails a receipt at purchase, and I can send an invoice on request.
A short note before you decide.
This course is not finished, and I would rather say so plainly than dress a pre-order up as something else. It opens on 15 December 2026.
It is also made the way it teaches: scripted from my own setup, assembled by an agent, narrated by a synthetic voice and checked by me. If it is late, or you change your mind before it opens, you have every cent back; once it is open, you have 30 days.
Harry
Pre-order
$49
$79 from 15 December 2026