Today was "Skills" day! And the "hardest" part about this exercise was when I had to decide what skill I wanted to build. When it finally clicked that skills can do just about anything, I was stumped for a minute (or 10!).
I finally decided on building a limited job-scraping skill - "Build a list of the most recent Executive Assistant job openings posted on Indeed, limited to San Francisco and Oakland." Took a handful of passes and corrections, but Claude came up with a job scraper that didn't piss off Indeed's bot detectors. It successfully brought back a limited list of Executive Assistant jobs specifically in San Francisco and Oakland. I frequently have to battle Indeed trying to send me jobs all the way in Livermore!
I built a second skill that will help me brainstorm article ideas for Medium. Claude helped me to make it flexible and able to do online research with Firecrawl if requested.
Other than me being temporarily frozen at the infinite ideas for skills building, this exercise went easier than I expected. I'm becoming more comfortable with Claude Code specifically, and Claude in general.