This is a walkthrough of how I use Claude Code (CC) with new product APIs that the model isn’t already well-versed in, such as the Tinker API!

I’ve already finetuned some models on Tinker. Now I’m calling Tinker service again to serve these models for inference so you can chat with them, alongside my notes for each training run!

Claude Code features I used:

• Claude.md file for preferences
• Planning mode
• Storing information for CC to reference in a folder in the repo
• Tool use — web search
• Plugin marketplace

My workflow:

1. Use AI to help with designing the UI, then implement with CC
   1. Front end driven architecture. Any backend logic / APIs are downstream from what I wanted to show on the UI, so I like to start with the UI first.
2. Set up personal coding preferences using # in CC.
3. Create backend by dumping in text from Tinker API documentation and their example scripts from Tinker Cookbook repo
4. Use a plugin for specialized tasks like making the frontend snazzier with animations
5. Ask Claude Code to deploy!