Building with Claude: Lessons from real projects | Serverless Office Hours

Learn how an AWS Serverless Hero ships with Claude every day and what actually moves the needle. Ran Isenberg joins Julian Wood to share the setup, configurations, and mindset that help him deliver real projects with Claude Code. Discover why the engineering job has fundamentally changed and why judgment, not typing speed, is now the core skill. Learn how to expand Claude with community and custom skills, and why the person holding the tool matters more than the tool itself. Get practical, shareable techniques for debugging in plain English, managing project context, and structuring your workflow so AI can actually help. We are also available to answer any of your serverless questions. Host: Julian Wood - Principal Developer Advocate, AWS Serverless: https://x.com/julian_wood https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood/ Guest: Ran Isenberg - AWS Serverless Hero, Senior Principal Architect at Palo Alto Networks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranbuilder/ Stream Links: AI Changed How We Build. Our Tools Didn't: https://ranthebuilder.cloud/blog/ai-changed-how-we-build-our-tools-didn-t/ SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@AWSEventsChannel SERVERLESS OFFICE HOURS Playlist: https://s12d.com/soh-youtube A weekly live office hours to learn about building serverless applications. We cover a separate topic each week, including what's new with serverless, deep dives into feature launches and best practices, and explorations of real-world usecases. Join us live to ask us anything you want about serverless technologies and applications. https://ServerlessLand.com Your resource for learning about serverless technology. Learn to use and build apps that scale automatically on low-cost, fully managed serverless architecture.