Patricia Findel 🇩🇪

“Building "Hike Scotland" with Claude & Vercel The fun part: I'd already built Hike Scotland once before — by hand in PHP for a uni project I passed. So coming back to the same idea with AI coding gave me a real before-and-after. Two things blew me away. First, the speed — I could rebuild big chunks of the site or add whole new features in a fraction of the time. An interactive map with location markers, for example, would've been a real fight in my PHP version; here it just came together. Honestly, the AI-built site ended up with way more scope than my hand-coded one. Second, how much my earlier experience helped. Because I'd built this exact site before, I knew exactly what I wanted — and that made working with Claude so much more powerful. The AI gave me speed, but knowing the project inside out let me steer it instead of just taking whatever came out. AI doesn't replace understanding — it amplifies it. Came away faster, more confident, and pretty proud of the result.”

“AI is leverage. But leverage on what? If you don't know anything, AI doesn't save you. It just helps you ship something broken, faster. That's the trap with vibe coding. Where I was coming from I'm not a beginner. I work alongside developers. I'm doing a Computer Science master's — non-consecutive, so I'm one-eyed. Not blind. Not sharp-sighted either. I can see the shape of things, not the detail. Why SheCodes worked It doesn't drop you in a rabbit hole. You're guided, step by step, to something finished. You use AI the whole way through. But Matt explains why each part of a website matters and how it fits together. And when you want to go deeper, he points you to the right resource — he has a huge library outside the course, all of it free. That's the part most courses get wrong.”

“I really enjoyed applying and practising the new skills.”

“I have done a bunch of other courses. What I like about this one: you are forced to actually apply what you have learned in a manner that proves at least basic understanding. Other courses let you answer a couple of questions and thats it. This is much more helpful!”