NOW is personalized software a thing?

Not that long ago, I tried to use Claude to customize Publii, the app I use to make this website. It didn't do so well. Literally the next day, Anthropic announced the Claude 4 family, and now Claude Sonnet 4.5 is out. Anthropic's unbiased opinion states it's the best coding model in the world, so what happens when I rerun my test?

Unfortunately, not much. You could basically just reread the last post and my experience was largely the same. This time around, I used Claude Code in the terminal to build everything locally, saving me a lot of time. It's really nice when it debugs and troubleshoots build issues ✨agentically✨ instead of me suffering through it alone.

Even with Sonnet 4.5, my feature request failed to show up in my build. That said, it certainly improved! Last time, it couldn't generate an SVG of the BlueSky logo, but now it did a great job. Baby steps, I suppose.

I should come up with an easier test, like asking it to create an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle.