Claude Code Workshop — Digital Product Management Lab

Delivered a hands-on Claude Code workshop to PM students in Chris LaSala’s Digital Product Management Lab at Columbia Business School — part of a broader series reaching 300+ students across Columbia over two weeks as a Claude Ambassador.

What We Covered

• Live demo: Building a working prototype from scratch using Claude Code inside VS Code — from npm install to a deployed app
• Context engineering: Why curating what enters the model’s attention window matters more than writing better prompts
• CLAUDE.md files: How structured project context transforms generic AI responses into product-aware outputs
• Practical framework: Write, Select, Compress, Isolate — four strategies for managing the context window like a budget

Key Takeaway

Context engineering is not a new skill for PMs — it is the same discipline of managing competing information, translating ambiguous signals, and curating what the next conversation needs to know. Applied to AI, it becomes the lever that determines whether the model is a multiplier or a crutch.

Full write-up: The AI Superpower for PMs: Why Context Engineering Is the Skill That Changes Everything

Workshop Resources

• Claude Builder Club WhatsApp Group
• Anthropic API Console
• Claude Code Documentation
• Best Practices