Two prompts. A working plugin. Here’s exactly what I typed, what came back, and whether I’d do it again.

I’ve been curious about AI coding tools for a while — not in a “let’s replace developers” way, but in a practical sense. Can they actually save time on real projects? Or do you spend more time fixing the output than you would have spent writing it yourself?

So I picked a real project I needed done anyway — a WordPress plugin that adds a one-click “Duplicate” button to posts and pages — and I built the whole thing using Claude Code. No starter code, no templates. I just described what I wanted and watched what happened.

Here’s the full breakdown: the prompts I used, the code that came out, and what I actually think of the experience.

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Copying a post ID in WordPress means opening the editor, looking at the URL, and picking the number out of ?post=. It works. It’s also mildly annoying every single time you do it.

So I built a plugin that puts a Copy ID button directly in the Posts and Pages list. One click — ID is in your clipboard. And I built the whole thing using Claude Code, start to finish.

Here’s exactly how it went, including the prompts I used.

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