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Maryrose Lyons, Founder of the AI Institute

The setup problem nobody talks about

Published 6 months ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader,

I'll be straight with you.
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Claude Code is brilliant. It's also not something you just sign up for and start typing into. There's a terminal involved. API keys. Configuration. A mental model that's quite different from ChatGPT or Copilot.

None of it is hard. But it is unfamiliar. And if you're anything like me, "unfamiliar" plus "busy" usually equals "I'll get to it next week", for about six months.

I've watched this happen with dozens of smart, capable people. They know Claude Code exists. They've read the articles. They've maybe even installed it. But they haven't actually used it, because that first hour of setup feels like a wall.

But I really want you to know this: once you're past that wall, it's extraordinary. I automated our entire podcast content repurposing process - all we need to do now is drop a transcript into a folder, and everything gets done - episode goes up, blog posts and social content come out the other side. That took a couple of hours to do. But now I don't have to do anything on getting our podcasts out anymore.

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Ask anyone who's using Claude Code: what are the doing at the weekends? Everyone is building.

That's what this course is about. Two live sessions with an incredible Claude Code instructor who will walk you through setup, get your thinking on, and help you build something real for your work.

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Tech check is this Thursday to get everyone configured. Course starts 30 April.

​Book your place →​

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See you on the other side of the wall,

Maryrose

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Maryrose Lyons, Founder of the AI Institute

Maryrose Lyons has spent 25 years helping firms through every wave of new technology, and generative AI is the biggest she's seen. These days she runs the AI Institute, working alongside construction, engineering, architecture and QS teams across Ireland, the UK and EMEA, and has upskilled more than 2,800 professionals along the way. She's the voice behind the ChattingGPT podcast. Each bi-weekly edition pairs a piece of her thinking on AI at work with the latest episode. Pull up a chair with more than 5,800 readers.

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