Wow moments with Claude Code

I'm Pair-Programming
From a Theme Park

Alexander Gomez · 2026

Saturday · 11:34 AM · Efteling

1:10 — "I've been using AI since the prompting days — back when ChatGPT first came out — and I've watched it evolve fast. Last January I started experimenting with AI Agents. Mid-2025 I began building EMX — the project I'm about to show you — with prompt engineering. The API came together. But I knew the UI was going to take me another couple of months: free time was scarce. Then in February I picked up Claude Code. Agentic Engineering. Suddenly I could move fast — genuinely impressed by what well-planned agents could ship beside me on my own software projects. Within hours the first EMX UI was running. The plan was to demo it Monday morning at the office — show my colleagues of my team what I'd been building. So the build had to be ready Monday. Then I looked at my calendar: the weekend was fully booked. Saturday at Efteling with the family — whole day. I couldn't lose it, and I did not want to push the demo. So Friday night I went to sleep thinking: what if I could SSH from my iPhone into my VPS — and run Claude Code from there? The next morning, this is what was on my phone."

Yes. Kids are in the queue for a rollercoaster my stomach can't handle.
I'm deploying agents from my phone.

[ beat ]

Let me rewind.

A photo. A story. A song.
About 4 minutes end-to-end.

visionreads the photo.

composerwrites the song.

imagepaints.

musicplays.

videostitches.

five AI models, working in parallel

For moments.

For memory.

"Papa, kunnen we samen een liedje maken?"

— my son · December

Warm.

808. Brass.

He loved it.

EMX-generated cover for King of the World

Claude Code and I had made a tool that made music my eight-year-old wanted to hear again.

It's on Spotify now. He has an artist page. One single. — that's it.

He's eight. He has a single on Spotify.
I'm now his manager.

[ beat ]

Want to see another one made live?

live demo

EMX

emx.firebots.cloud

fallback

[ fallback static screenshot — EMX result ]

Four minutes. End to end.

Okay. Back to the theme park.

Family selfie at Efteling, Saturday in February

Saturday in February. Pair-programming in a forty-minute queue.

If a CSS fix takes 40 minutes in a queue —
what could a whole app take?

live demo · audience prompt

Vibe Deployer

vibe.firebots.cloud

3:30 — [LIVE DEMO IN CHROME TAB 3 · audience prompt] Walkthrough script: 1. "Shout out a one-line app idea — something small, something fun." [wait 5s for response] 2. If silence after 5s, pivot: "I've got one." [type the locked backup prompt from /opt/wow-long/DEMO-PROMPTS.md] 3. Type the prompt. Narrate as Claude works: "composing the HTML… writing the JS… deploying…" 4. When deployed, click the URL. 5. Show it works — do one interaction (click a button, see the response). 6. Return to deck: Cmd+1. FALLBACK if WebSocket fails or deploy takes > 60s: press DOWN ARROW for pre-recorded deploy screenshot. Narrate: "And that's exactly what would have happened — here's one I made earlier."

fallback

[ fallback — pre-recorded Vibe Deployer result ]

live, on the internet, right now

From a sentence. In sixty seconds.

Terminus tmux · claude

~ tmux attach

$ claude

● SSH from phone

● tmux session

● Claude Code agent

● iOS keyboard

✓ read · write · ship

Terminus · the studio in my pocket

The studio is wherever I am.

Here's what I checked from bed this morning.

live · my calorie tracker

OpenClaw

on my VPS · via Telegram

fallback

[ fallback — OpenClaw Telegram chat ]

Counted. Logged. Done. From bed.

in one year

Three things
Claude Code changed for me.

I wrote an nginx config while my kids ran around the playground.

I made a cinematic hip-hop song I couldn't have made alone.

I shipped production from the back of a rollercoaster queue.

I said three wow moments.
There's a fourth.
And I use it every morning.

live · YouTube → analysis · /verify · /roadmap

YoutubeSummarizer

on my VPS · via Telegram

2:00 — [LIVE DEMO IN CHROME TAB 5 · Telegram Web] Walkthrough script: 1. "I send a YouTube URL — get back the analysis." [show last analyzed video in the chat] 2. "And I built two commands on top of it that I use constantly:" 3. "/verify — fact-checks the claims in the video against the web." 4. "/roadmap — turns the video into a learning plan I can actually follow." 5. [paste queued URL from /opt/wow-long/DEMO-PROMPTS.md + send /verify] 6. [Wait ~30-55s — narrate during the wait:] "While that's running — this whole pipeline is Codex doing deep research on my VPS. Real web tools. Real sources." 7. Show the /verify result when it arrives. 8. (Optional) Quickly show a recent /roadmap output from the chat history. 9. Return to deck: Cmd+1. FALLBACK if /verify takes > 60s OR Telegram fails: press DOWN ARROW for screenshot pair.

fallback

YoutubeSummarizer /verify + /roadmap screenshots

[ fallback — /verify + /roadmap outputs ]

An agent that reads YouTube so I don't have to.

Old setup: a laptop on a desk on a weekday.
New setup: a phone deploying agents in a queue on a Saturday.

[ beat ]

Monday. Your innovation Sprint.

Pick one ticket. Let an agent draft it — from your phone. From your couch. From a queue.

Speaker by the sea using Claude Code on iPhone

Soon, engineers will deploy agents from anywhere we are.

I'm Pair-ProgrammingFrom a Theme Park

Yes. Kids are in the queue for a rollercoaster my stomach can't handle.I'm deploying agents from my phone.

Let me rewind.

A photo. A story. A song.About 4 minutes end-to-end.

Warm.

808.

Brass.

He loved it.

He's eight. He has a single on Spotify.I'm now his manager.

Want to see another one made live?

EMX

Four minutes. End to end.

Okay. Back to the theme park.

If a CSS fix takes 40 minutes in a queue —what could a whole app take?

Vibe Deployer

From a sentence. In sixty seconds.

The studio is wherever I am.

Here's what I checked from bed this morning.

OpenClaw

Counted. Logged. Done. From bed.

Three thingsClaude Code changed for me.

I said three wow moments.There's a fourth.And I use it every morning.

YoutubeSummarizer

An agent that reads YouTube so I don't have to.

Old setup: a laptop on a desk on a weekday.New setup: a phone deploying agents in a queue on a Saturday.

Monday. Your innovation Sprint.

Thank you

I'm Pair-Programming
From a Theme Park

Yes. Kids are in the queue for a rollercoaster my stomach can't handle.
I'm deploying agents from my phone.

A photo. A story. A song.
About 4 minutes end-to-end.

He's eight. He has a single on Spotify.
I'm now his manager.

If a CSS fix takes 40 minutes in a queue —
what could a whole app take?

Three things
Claude Code changed for me.

I said three wow moments.
There's a fourth.
And I use it every morning.

Old setup: a laptop on a desk on a weekday.
New setup: a phone deploying agents in a queue on a Saturday.