Getting Started — Part 4: My Toolkit — How I Build Everything Without Writing Code
The question I get most often: "If you can't code, how did you build any of this?" Fair question. I've deployed trading bots, graduated AI agents, launched a paid API — and I've never written a line of code from scratch. Not one. Everything was built with tools, most of which cost nothing. This post lays out every single one of them. The One Tool That Makes Everything Else Possible Claude. That's Anthropic's AI, and it's the reason this blog exists. Here's my actual workflow, stripped of any glamour: I open a chat and describe what I want in plain English. "I need a Python script that checks the BTC price on Kraken and Coinbase and compares them." Claude writes the code. I copy it into a file, run it, and it breaks. I copy the error message, paste it back. Claude explains what went wrong and gives me a fixed version. I run it again. Sometimes this loop happens three times. Sometimes fifteen. It's messy. It's slow compare...