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Ready to Roll

Posted May 4, 2026

I'm finally starting the trial. To get updates go to my existing site, click on a post, and subscribe to the site. Any new post will get sent to you automatically. Or check out that site or my new site from time to time.

It's finally here ... tomorrow I get admitted to the Stanford Hospital, and the next morning I get infused with the new Phase 1 trial treatment. I'm a little freaked out about possible side effects, but I know the team at Stanford Hospital is top-notch. I'm also not looking forward to ten days in the hospital. But I've taken two new books with me, plus my electronic menagerie (phone, tablet, laptop), so I'll survive.

To keep my mind off the treatment, I spent the last three to four days creating a new website. Not entirely from scratch, to be fair, but from a pretty plain template that I've done a lot of work on to improve. When I say "I've done a lot of work," what I mean is that Claude and I did a lot of work together. The experience has opened my eyes to the uses of AI. Particularly now, when you can not only ask AI questions, but also get it to implement changes to program files (the so-called "Agent" function), it's very easy (and mostly pleasurable) to code projects in tandem with Claude Code. I'll tell Claude how I want to change my site, it will walk me through the necessary code changes, I can ask repeated questions about the changes to make sure I understand them, then Claude can actually make the changes to the file.

The italicized language above is to me the most important. It turns Claude into a teacher. I'm not just giving "do this" instructions and not understanding how they're implemented, I'm learning how the changes are implemented, and then being spared the pain of manually typing the changes into the files. It's educational and fun. The best twenty dollars per month I've ever spent.

Not only did I/Claude make significant changes to the site, but we also implemented code that automatically sends any new post to my existing site, where I can review it and publish it, avoiding the pain of copying and pasting. That process was painful and I still don't trust it completely, but we'll see how it performs.