Cheezy World

I have made my living as an Agile coach since 2003. I have worked as a coach for clients around the world, taught many courses in various topics, and spoken at too many conferences to count. I have dedicated more than a third of my life to these concepts and truly believe they have been the best way to deliver software.

Agile has gone through many changes over my career. A few of the major ones that I feel have had the most impact are the introduction of Lean Startup, practices like BDD and Acceptance Test Driven Development, and my favourite which is Continuous Delivery. Most of these changes have come from within the Agile community and have pushed us forward in our understanding of how to deliver more value quicker. I have stayed current and in some cases have been on the forefront for many of these changes.

WIP Limits

Before we start building out the columns I asked Claude to update the plan in order to add WIP limits. I was suprised by the number of changes that were required. You can see the details here in the first video of this post.

Adding the columns

Now on to adding columns to our Kanban application. In the first video we ask Claude to finish all of the non-UI work which includes adding a column table to the database, create the relationship to board, create the schema to hold the data from the database, create the context to perform the basic CRUD functions, and finally create the tests for all of this.

Just a small thing

Off screen I asked Claude to create the favicon based on the image it has already placed on the home page. In less than a minute I had these files:

Claude also added this html in the header of the root.html.eex file:

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href={~p"/images/favicon.ico"} />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href={~p"/images/favicon-16x16.png"} />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href={~p"/images/favicon-32x32.png"} />
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="48x48" href={~p"/images/favicon-48x48.png"} />
<link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href={~p"/images/favicon.svg"} />

This is a small change but it adds to the polish of the app.

Follow up for the French Translations

After the last recording I started manually looking at the translatons. I quickly noticed that the authentication pages were not translated. This is why I take very small steps and verify after each one. LLMs cannot read your mind and they do not always do what you think they should. Small steps allow us to make adjustments or revert when it does the wrong thing. I asked Claude to translate the authentication pages and it did.

Taking a Detour

I decided to change the plan a little and take care of a couple of user facing issues. Let’s see how that goes.

So we have a new plan. I will be making the site pretty (and responsive) and I will be adding internationalization including the French language support for all existing pages. Should I trust Claude to come up with my design? What should I expect out of an LLM? Let’s see the results of the first part of this revised plan.