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Agentic Coding with Claude Code: The everyday developer's guide to agentic coding with Claude Code
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April 5, 2026
I found myself embracing AI. There is no choice, but to onboard it and master as soon as you can. I am experimenting with various AI vendors and tools so I have no firm opinion yet and decided to widen my understanding of Anthropic offerings. This book (obtained from Packt) looked legit and from somebody who works at Google only fortified my desire to read it end-to-end.
What can I say? The AI is changing at a rapid pace and changing how we code and how fast.
This book will make you familiar with Claude models and how to efficiently use them. But also beyond.
To my not yet professional eye, the same techniques can be applied to Copilot (also exposes Anthropic models).
The weak places in the book is that it seems a tad chaotically organized in terms of how the chapters go and it's very *nix oriented, but a Windows user should be able to work with it, too.
The good: I liked the section about the prompt engineering, really enlightened me; besides, the book prepares you to work on a large codebase (i.e. a website which is the main company's project or your division's). And it perhaps is a disadvantage too. E.g. if you are in a support role and often jump from a web app/site or project to project in your organization that are comprised of various technologies, one common set of Claude files would not work.
In essence, and in terms of the closing: the book opens up on aspects one might not notice or would have known exists: specialized files that drive and steer the AI to right direction.
What can I say? The AI is changing at a rapid pace and changing how we code and how fast.
This book will make you familiar with Claude models and how to efficiently use them. But also beyond.
To my not yet professional eye, the same techniques can be applied to Copilot (also exposes Anthropic models).
The weak places in the book is that it seems a tad chaotically organized in terms of how the chapters go and it's very *nix oriented, but a Windows user should be able to work with it, too.
The good: I liked the section about the prompt engineering, really enlightened me; besides, the book prepares you to work on a large codebase (i.e. a website which is the main company's project or your division's). And it perhaps is a disadvantage too. E.g. if you are in a support role and often jump from a web app/site or project to project in your organization that are comprised of various technologies, one common set of Claude files would not work.
In essence, and in terms of the closing: the book opens up on aspects one might not notice or would have known exists: specialized files that drive and steer the AI to right direction.
April 23, 2026
This book is a bloated retelling of the Anthropic documentation.
Each chapter begins with "This chapter introduces ...". Then begins a section with "In this section, we will ...". After several paragraphs of description what we will learn, a reader can read all that he could read on the official website.
I stopped reading after this paragraph (in chapter 4):
The second sentence repeat the same information!
Don't waste your time and money!
Each chapter begins with "This chapter introduces ...". Then begins a section with "In this section, we will ...". After several paragraphs of description what we will learn, a reader can read all that he could read on the official website.
I stopped reading after this paragraph (in chapter 4):
The portability challenge
Assume the agent becomes widely adopted and other teams want to use its functionality in
different environments. Now suppose the agent becomes widely adopted and other teams
want to use its functionality in different environments.
The second sentence repeat the same information!
Don't waste your time and money!
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