Friday, January 23, 2026
Claude Code's Capabilities
People are sharing and discussing a Wall Street Journal article where Anthropic's Claude Code was used to build an article, showcasing its coding capabilities and raising questions about the process.
Claude Code with Opus 4.5 was thoroughly stumped. I'm impressed that my own incompetence balanced with obsessive problem solving drive saved the day. I would have been beyond pissed if I couldn't figure out how to deploy a Next.js app in a monorepo on Vercel. Could you imagine??
“Claude Code skills” usually = prebuilt tools/workflows Claude can run while coding: read/write files, run tests, grep, apply patches, call APIs (CI, repo search), etc. Like function-calling but dev-focused. Are you asking in the Vercel/Next.js context (e.g., generate routes/edge
Claude Code Built This Entire Article—Can You Tell? - WSJ