The senior engineer in your corner while you learn to build with Claude Code.
Twelve years shipping production software. Now I help developers plan, direct, and review an agent — so the thing you ship is something you'd actually put your name on.
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/is-this-you
You're a capable, curious developer.
You know exactly what you want: to build real software with Claude Code as your pair — not throwaway demos, but features that ship, run in production, and hold up under review.
And you're sharp, resourceful, and genuinely unafraid of hard problems. You've got the fundamentals. You read the docs. You've watched the agent do something brilliant in one session and something baffling in the next. So what GIVES? It can feel like an uphill battle at times — because you are more than willing to DO THE WORK.
Fact is… there are some things you just can't figure out from a changelog alone, or brute-force in a single weekend.
Sometimes the gap between "I can prompt an agent" and "I can direct one reliably" just gets in the way — and you need a little more structure, and a few more people in your corner, to break through.
/hey-im-jordan
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Developers, I see you. Hey — I'm Jordan Ellery, and I know exactly what you're going through.
In case we've never met, let me tell you a little about me…
/why-i-built-this
I started Build Mode because I watched agentic coding split developers into two camps — the ones who dismissed it, and the ones who got burned by it — and neither of those felt like the real story.
Three reasons I decided to teach it this way:
Because I got burned first.
I let an agent run loose on a real codebase, shipped a mess, and spent a weekend cleaning it up. The fix wasn't "stop using the agent" — it was learning to plan and review. I'd rather you skip that weekend entirely.
Because tutorials don't stick.
I learned this by building real things and reviewing every diff — not by watching someone else's screen. So that's how I teach it. You leave every lesson with code you actually pushed.
Because the tooling moves every week.
Most courses are out of date the day they launch. I update this the week Claude Code ships features — so what you learn is how the agent behaves now, not last year.
And here's why that matters for you: when you can direct an agent and trust your own review, you stop being afraid of the tool and start shipping more than you ever could by hand. That's the whole game.
I don't believe in typing every line to prove you're a "real" engineer. I believe in planning like it matters, reviewing like it's going to production — because it is — and letting the agent handle the parts that were never the point. Direct the work. Own the diff. Ship the thing.
/where-were-at
Now, I've helped over 3,000 developers ship real software they're proud of — without the hand-wavy hype, the copy-paste-and-pray, and the "trust me, the agent's got it" that gives agentic coding a bad name.
"I stopped writing every line and started directing the work. Jordan's approach to planning and review made the agent reliable instead of chaotic — I ship about twice as much now, and I trust all of it."
Lena Fischer
Product Engineer · Berlin
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The exact planning template I use to make Claude Code reliable before it writes a single line. Steal it — it's the difference between an agent that ships and one that spirals.
/best-teacher-ever
Different because
I'm not like most engineering instructors — I still ship production code every week. I'm teaching you from inside the work, not from a slide deck about it.
Anything but normal
I name my branches after obscure sci-fi ships and write commit messages that are, honestly, far too long. Consistency is a virtue; I have chosen other ones.
I support weirdness
After all, I read release notes for fun and keep a running doc of agent failure modes purely because they fascinate me. Bring your strange edge cases — I love them.
My approach is unique
I care more about your review habits than your prompt-wizardry. A great plan and a sharp eye beat a clever one-liner every single time.
My favorite thing about this work
The moment it clicks for someone — when they stop fighting the agent, direct it cleanly, and realize they just shipped something real and reviewed every line of it. I live for that.
Build Mode
So if you're ready to build with Claude Code in a way that gives you confidence —
I'd love for you to join thousands of other students who are accelerating their careers.
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