I Asked Claude to Build a Real Tool in an Evening — Here's Exactly How, Including What Went Wrong

You keep hearing that "AI can build software now." That's true, and it's also more complicated than the headline. So I asked Claude to build a real, working tool — a photo-blur scanner — and it did. I didn't write a line of it. I kept every prompt, then had Claude analyze its own build. Here's the whole thing: the prompts I typed, the decisions I made, the night it quietly accomplished nothing,…